On Topical Issues of Improving Psychological Criteria for Assessing Correction of Convicts: Results of the Survey of Employees of the Psychological Services of Territorial Bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
Shcherbakov G.V., Balamut A.N., Kornilova T.V. On topical issues of improving psychological criteria for assessing correction of convicts: results of the survey of employees of the psychological services of territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 3 (71), pp. 328–334. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.71.3.012.
the article analyzes results of the survey of employees of the psychological services of territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia on improving psychological criteria for assessing correction of convict. Purpose: based on the results of empirical research, to generalize and analyze data that make it possible to systematize and concretize the issues under consideration. Methods: during the study of psychological criteria for assessing correction of convicts, methods of psychodiagnostics (questionnaires), as well as scientific source analysis are used. Results: key concepts on the relevance of applying psychological criteria for assessing of correction of convicts and their improvement are analyzed. Conclusion: based on the analysis of the research results, the authors emphasize the need for a comprehensive review of the process of correcting the personality of a convicted person, taking into account the improvement of psychological criteria for assessing correction of convicts and clarifying methods, forms, conditions and additional factors contributing to improving performance of the work carried out. In this regard, the importance of perceiving convicts as subjects capable of correction and re-socialization through active participation in specially organized correctional programs and through the creation of conditions for self-education and self-study as the main components of self-education of the individual is emphasized.
Keywords: correction of convicts; psychocorrection programs; psychodiagnostic methods that determine the correction degree of convicts; conditions and factors contributing to the correction of convicts; correction criteria.
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