Individual Treatment in the Enforcement Process of Criminal Sanctions

Igrački, Jasmina (2012) Individual Treatment in the Enforcement Process of Criminal Sanctions. In: Međunarodni naučni skup "Dani Arčibalda Rajsa". Kriminalističko-policijska akademija, Beograd, pp. 435-445. ISBN 978-86-7020-190-3

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Abstract

The paper presents an analytical approach to treatment as a primary means of re-educational concept of convicted prisoners, with a particular reference to the period when the idea of re-socialization was predominant in penology, and the period when the idea of re-education was abandoned. All of that influenced the determination of the goals of punishment and other criminal sanctions, which reflects on the forms of application of work with prisoners. The disappointment and abandonment of the concept of re-socialization influenced the goals of punishment and the relationship with offenders, and thus, the degree of use and application of all known forms and methods of work with prisoners. In modern Europe, a correctional practice, in spite of a high level of distrust when it comes to the concept of social reintegration, did not enter the retributive type of oppression, but preserved the healthy core of re-socialization in selecting types of penalties and sanctions, and greatly respected the principle of guilt, by which a more balanced relationship between the general and special prevention was established. The form of individual treatment, as a form of work, as well as techniques and methods used in individual work with prisoners, are discussed in this paper. The number and variety of treatment techniques is great. Therapeutic techniques can be distinguished by the degree or level of importance of working with prisoners, on which they are carried out. Also described are the basic steps and the essence of individual work, which includes: exploring personality – testing of convicted persons from the socio – psychological, pedagogical, medical and criminological aspects; educational activities to inmates during the execution of criminal sanctions – using a method of counseling, prevention, encouragement and punishment; correction of behavior in changing negative attitudes, working habits, building and maintaining positive habits, working discipline and self – discipline, guidance through the ongoing process of prisoners’ education, (either professional or general) and to assist in solving personal and family problems and other interpersonal conflicts. All these activities are an integral part of individual work with prisoners, which is achieved by different techniques and methods of exercise.

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