Relevance of Studying a Problematic Issue of Placing and Detaining Convicts in Cell-Type Premises
Kazberov P.N. Relevance of studying a problematic issue of placing and detaining convicts in cell-type premises. Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 1 (69), pp. 91–97. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.69.1.011
The issue of placing and detaining convicts in cell-type premises has a long history, being relevant not only due to the conflict behavior of convicts in conditions of long-term social deprivation, but also due to the need to suppress (prevent) the ideology of extremism in prisontype correctional institutions. Purpose: to determine the relevance and significance of the issue of placing and detaining convicts in cell-type premises in penitentiary institutions. Materials and methods: a review-analytical method including a theoretical and methodological analysis of available scientific and literary sources, as well as an ascertaining empirical method regulating the analysis of organizational-methodological and normative-legal sources. Results: all available theoretical and methodological sources on the studied problematic issue are analyzed. The conclusion about the relevance and significance of the issue of cell placement and detention of convicts in penitentiary institutions is substantiated. The experience of psychological work (diagnostic and correctional) in penitentiary institutions of ерцBryansk and Vladimir oblasts is described. Conclusion: to prevent possible problems of cell placement of convicts, it is necessary to take into account the intensity of past criminal activity of convicts and its type; serving a sentence in the past; personal characteristics; religion; socio-cultural development level; presence of mental anomalies; presence of categories of preventive registration; attitude to measures of influence, labor, and regime. The author gives recommendations on solving the problem of unstructured time of convicts through employment; diagnosing true intentions.
Keywords: Convicts; placement in cell-type premises; ideology of extremism and terrorism; destructive behavior; conflicts; social deprivation; psychologists; prisons; penal system
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