Dysfunctions of Social Relations of Former Convicts, Affecting their Social Reintegration
Abstract
Social environment is essential for social reintegration of convicts. At the same time, legal psychology lacks explanations of social psychological aspects of reintegration, the function of relationships. This study provides empirical data to make up for the lack of this information. The purpose of the research is to study the role of relations to social environment in the violation of reintegration of persons subjected to administrative supervision.
The method of data collection is a survey. The functions of relationships to social environment in supervised persons, as well as personal, interpersonal and social causes of reintegration disorders are studied. The data are processed by the procedures of descriptive statistics, differences are identified by the Kruskall-Wallis criterion, and the functions of relationships are assessed by regression analysis (GLM mediation models).
The study sample consists of 695 people, 260 of whom are classified as persons with law-abiding behavior (Mean age=32.3 years, SD=9.3 years; men= 77%). The remaining part is made up of persons under administrative supervision, of whom 243 persons are under administrative supervision. - convicted for a single intentional crime (Cf.age=34,5 years, SD=9,54 years; males= 77%); 192 persons convicted more than once, including recidivism (Cf.age=40,2 years, SD=9,35 years; males= 83,2%).
The results indicate that functional characteristics of attitudes to social environment are indicators of interpersonal and social causes of violation of reintegration of supervised persons into society. New information about the functional of relations to social environment was obtained, their influence on overcoming difficulties and problems related to reintegration was revealed.
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