Znaczenie rodziny w życiu skazanych poszkodowanych... – opinie, oceny i potrzeby
The Importance of Family in the Lives of Victimised Convicts – Opinions, Evaluations and Needs

Summary/Abstract: The questions addressed in the present paper concern the family relations of persons deprived of freedom who – remaining in the prison environment – have been degraded, that is convicts occupying the lowest rung in the informal penitentiary system, so-called victimized prisoners. They make a specific community, rejected and humiliated by other inmates. The necessity to ensure safety to them and help them protect their personal characteristics generates difficulties in activities of rehabilitative character. The aim of the research was to show the family relations of people degraded in the prison environment – a subject that has not been studied to date. The method of diagnostic survey was used, including the technique of questionnaire and interview. Two original research tools were designed. The research was conducted within a group of 151 victimized prisoners and 15 correction officers. Good relations with the loved ones, on the other hand, influence the convicts both whole in the penal institution and after they leave it. Furthermore, the convicts’ consciousness that they are supported by their closest relatives determines their thinking about themselves: they do not feel rejected, which – in the case of persons degraded in their environment – is of utmost importance.

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