Ideas of Russian Penal System Employees about the Official Behavior Pattern Forming a Humane Attitude towards Convicts
Pisarev O.M. Ideas of Russian penal system employees about the official behavior pattern forming a humane attitude towards convicts. Penitentiary Science, 2024, vol. 18, no. 2 (66), pp. 210–218. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2024.66.2.012.
issues related to certain aspects of the professional activities of personnel of
institutions and bodies executing criminal penalties in the context of the progressive process
of humanization of the domestic penitentiary system are relevant. Features of the staff’s official
activities when organizing the correctional process in places of detention are analyzed from a
psychological point of view. Purpose: to identify the subjective component of professional activity
through concretization of the ideas and views of penal system employees about humane treatment
of convicts, followed by the choice of a socially approved pattern of official behavior. Methods: the
author applied a psychological verbal and communicative method and used an author’s questionnaire
specially developed for the purpose of the study. The study covered current penal system employees
and public monitoring commission members (n=150, 3 focus groups). Results: attention is focused
on the subjective side of the performance of official tasks by employees, which is based on existing
functional behaviors, specifics of perception of situations in the process of exerting penitentiary
influence on convicts, willingness to demonstrate humane attitude towards persons serving criminal
sentences. The author determined respondents’ ideas about significant and insignificant personal
qualities that contribute to or hinder the process of humanization in places of deprivation of liberty,
their understanding of readiness and their definition of the official behavior pattern that allows
them to effectively and systematically carry out the correctional process using humane methods
of influence. Conclusion: employees’ choice of the official behavior pattern based on a humane
attitude towards the personality of a convicted person is an effective tool for professional activity
within the framework of general humanization of the social sphere. This makes it possible to expand
possibilities of the ongoing penitentiary process, the core of which is the fundamental principles
of the construction and implementation of socially approved practice of the execution of criminal
penalties.
Keywords: penitentiary system, penal system employee, convicts, official activity, behavior pattern, ideas, humane attitude.
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