About the mutual trust of the employees of the penal system and convicts women

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of trust between employees of a penal colony (inspectors and employees of the production zone), and women who are serving sentences for the crimes of 1) small and moderate, 2) such grave and particularly grave crimes. There were used a modification of the methods of assessment of trust/distrust by A. B. Kupreychenko, M. Rosenberg's Faith in People Scale, Acceptance of Others Scale by William F. Fey and J. Campbell’s Benevolence Scale. The fact of greater confidence on the part of employees of the production department to the women who are serving a sentence for a grave or especially grave crime was fixed, it was explained the specifics of their interaction in the work. The general trend to exercise greater trust by inmates to employees of the penal system was detected than their response reaction that appear of a greater degree of distrust.

Keywords

• trust/distrust
• mutual trust
• a penal colony
• employees of the penal system
• convicted women