Rehabilitation of women imprisoned for crimes committed on the violence background

Abstract

The primary objective of rehabilitational education is bringing to the individual’s proper adaptation to living in the society as well as formatting personality features, habits and behaviourin it that allow the individual independent and appropriate functioning in the society. Women who have committed various crimes on the violence background, in penitentiaries, are subjected to a wide range of actions aiming to develop a specific, intended change or modify aggressive behaviours. The basic forms of influence in this area are allowing for the contact with the family or being together mother and child in one prison, rehabilitation through work, participation in numerous treatment programs dedicated to people using violence and aggression as well as rewarding and penalizingaccording to the principles of economics point. Experiences of various penitentiaries prove the efficiency and the need to conduct such activities.