PRISONIZATION AS A FACTOR OF CRIMINAL RADICALISM AMONG PRISONERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of imprisonment as a factor of criminal radicalism among convicts. It has been established that criminal radicalism among those sentenced to imprisonment is an extremely dangerous phenomenon, which, in addition to general criminal features, also has a politically destabilizing feature, which is especially acutely manifested in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. An essential factor in criminal radicalism is incarceration - a complex social phenomenon, which can be understood in two dimensions: as an internal process of fixing special criminogenic qualities in the prisoner, determined by the "prison" environment, and as an externally directed process of negative influence of convicts, released from places of deprivation of liberty, on social environment, extra-penitentiary culture, bringing to it elements of criminal, prison subculture. A significant potential for increasing the effectiveness of combating imprisonment and criminal radicalism among convicts can be seen in the transformation of both the criminal enforcement system and criminal justice as a whole, the reduction of the share of prisoners in the structure of convicts, including through the expansion of probation opportunities, active public participation.