Persons sentenced to life-term imprisonment: socio-demographic, medical, criminal and criminal-executive characteristics as well as psychological support features

Abstract

The article reflects the authors’ views on contemporary issues related to psychological accompaniment of persons serving life imprisonment. The main direction of psychological support is to preserve mental health of life-term prisoners on the one hand, and professional assistance to employees, ensuring the implementation of this kind of imprisonment. The urgency of developing an integrated approach to psychological support of individual preventive work with convicts serving life imprisonment is emphasized by the absence of such experience, both Russian and foreign.

Keywords

• methods and methodology of deep study of personality
• personality of sentenced to life imprisonment
• complex approach
• psychological support