Assistance of Public Associations in Educational Work with Minors Sentenced to Imprisonment
Kuznetsova E.V., Kochanova V.S. Assistance of public associations in educational work with minors sentenced to imprisonment. Penitentiary Science, 2024, vol. 18, no. 4 (68), pp. 98–107. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.69.1.012
The article analyzes the practice of interaction between juvenile correctional facilities and public associations in the field of educational work with minors sentenced to imprisonment. Purpose: based on the study of regulatory acts, scientific literature, and empirical materials, to identify problems, public associations face when providing assistance in educational work with minors sentenced to imprisonment. Methods: dogmatic, formallegal, comparativelegal research methods, statistical methods, content analysis, statistical methods (surveys, questionnaires, observation). Results: the analysis of the practice of interaction between juvenile correctional facilities and public associations as institutions of civil society shows that public influence as a means of correction of those sentenced to imprisonment is of great importance for educational work with minors, allowing for indepth implementation of individual areas of education, diversification of the means and methods of such work, formation of interest, positive motivation among adolescents, and development of the material base for educational work. Conclusion: it is necessary to further study individual areas of assistance of public associations in educational work with minors sentenced to imprisonment in order to identify and disseminate positive practices, prepare methodological recommendations on interaction both for penal institutions and for socially oriented public associations planning such interaction, as well as enhance skills of penal institution employees in this area. The legal framework also requires improvement in terms of updating key areas of educational work, organizing interaction between institutions and public associations, activities of parent committees, etc.
Keywords: Juvenile convicts; educational work with convicts; juvenile correctional facilities; public associations; boards of trustees; parent committees; patriotic education; physical education
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