Russian Federation
Russian Federation
The article presents the results of the author’s research, the purpose of which is to analyze, study and identify the features of the organization of social work with convicts to restore, maintain and strengthen socially useful ties of convicts serving sentences in male and female correctional colonies in the Nizhny Novgorod and Vologda regions. Based on the opinion of social workers of penitentiary institutions, the main characteristics of the social ties of convicts serving sentences in places of detention, the main ways of maintaining them, as well as the technologies used by specialists in social work within the institution, contributing to the development of ties, are identified and systematized. The results of the research can be used to adjust the work of the territorial bodies of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in order to optimize and improve the activities for the development of social ties of convicts in order to reduce the recurrence of crimes, as well as in organizing work to improve the quality of social assistance provided to convicts to develop their social ties, develop appropriate decisions in law enforcement.
social ties of convicts, socially useful contacts of convicts, penitentiary social work, technologies of social work, group of social protection of convicts, correctional institution, special regime, strict regime, general regime
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