FACTORS OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF PERSONS CONVICTED TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT

Abstract

The current situation of improving the mechanisms of influence on the individual in the conditions of penitentiary institutions indicates the directions of the psychologist`s work related to optimizing the process of socio-psychological adaptation of convicts, which determines the study of factors of socio-psychological adaptation of prisoners. The factors that influence the course of socio-psychological adaptation of convicts, which in the author’s vision can be divided into factors of the first, second and third orders, depending on the conditions of the convicted person’s stay and the period of serving a sentence of imprisonment have been defined in the paper. It has been empirically proven that the age, gender, and level of education of convicts are significant factors in their socio-psychological adaptation to places of imprisonment.

Keywords

• deprivation of liberty
• socio-psychological adaptation of convicts
• maladaptation of convicted persons
• maladjustment of persons deprived of liberty
• factors of adaptation of convicts
• age
• gender
• level of education