Convicted – subject of social rehabilitation, readaptation and social interactions in the perspective of future social service employees on the example of research

Abstract

A convicted person is someone who has been officially found guilty of a crime in court and has been or is still in prison. The main goal of the rehabilitation process is to teach people serving prison sentences to fulfill social roles that are to protect them from returning to crime and allow for correct social rehabilitation after release from prison. A person convicted in the penitentiary system while serving a sentence of imprisonment is prepared to function properly in social, family and cultural life outside the prison walls (in part or in whole). Learning social roles, correcting existing behaviors and antisocial attitudes, strengthening resources and correct behaviors takes place through work with an educator, professional work, vocational training, participation in didactic classes, educational and upbringing classes, social and educational projects as well as therapy. Despite the wide range of activities in which a person serving a sentence of imprisonment in a social rehabilitation institution is involved, after leaving the prison, these people have difficulties adapting to the conditions of the outside world. What is the reason for the emerging difficulties in social, professional and family functioning after serving a prison sentence. Is the reason behind the convict, the penitentiary system where the rehabilitation process takes place, or maybe on the side of the social welfare system and people responsible for social and professional readaptation of people, post-penitentiary assistance and social work? What attitudes (knowledge, beliefs, feelings, motives, behaviors and expressive reactions) towards working with convicts are represented by future social service workers (educators, therapists, social workers, probation officers) who will work with the convicted person in a social rehabilitation institution and / or after it? abandonment and her / their families. The survey was conducted among students of social work and special education at the Academy of Special Education. Maria Grzegorzewska in Warsaw.

Keywords

• prison
• convicted person
• rehabilitation
• socialization
• social readaptation