JUVENILE CONVICTED AS OBJECTS OF SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL WORK IN CONDITIONS OF INSULATION

Abstract

One of the manifestations of moral adversity in our society is a significant increase in juvenile delinquency. Being a social phenomenon, it criminalizes public relations and poses a threat to the future of the entire Ukrainian people. Crime prevention is the key to fulfilling one of the main functions of the state. These activities must be systematic. However, the influence must be exerted on those structural elements that constitute criminality as such, in other words, on the criminals who committed the crime. At the national level, it is recognized that the low level of organization of socio-educational and psychological work with convicts clearly will not provide conditions for effective individual correction of the behavior and re-socialization of convicts, resulting in a significant number of cases of recidivism. Despite significant progress in the application of corrective leverage, not involving deprivation of liberty to juvenile offenders, the most widespread measure to combat juvenile delinquency in Ukraine is bringing such persons to criminal responsibility, followed by the application of the criminal penalty of imprisonment for a specified period. The high level and negative trends in the dynamics of juvenile delinquency, high rates of recidivism among persons, serving facilities indicate the need for research, the results of which will contribute to further reforming of juvenile justice. The case study of the article is a minor convicted as an object of social and educational work in isolation conditions. The structure of the socio-pedagogical portrait of a juvenile convict includes: 1) socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, nationality, educational level, state of family upbringing, and sphere of life activity before conviction); 2) criminal-legal characteristics (types of committed crimes and terms of punishment, presence of previous convictions of minors and their criminal status in the penitentiary environment); 3) psychological and pedagogical characteristics (age, general, and specific features of convicts, personality traits developed due to the negative influence of psycho-physiological, pedagogical, and social factors).