Specific Features Of Normative Ideals And Individual Priorities Of The Deviant Personality

The article deals with the problem of resocialization (social reintegration and rehabilitation) and specific features of individual values of the convict's personality. Normative ideals and. individual priorities of convicts serving their sentences at correctional institutions are investigated in the article. Empirical research was carried out with the use of psychological tests of values, but the processing interpretation of the results are conducted with a comparative analysis with the use of statistical criteria and It has been proved that specific features of convicts' axiological sphere (personal values and differ the system of personal meanings) who get higher professional education in penitentiary system, specific features do the axiological sphere convicts who are not involved in the educational process by more pronounce tendencies of socially accepted norms and rules in society. Moreover, it has been found that the value-motivational structure of personality of convicts who get education is characterized by a desire to achievement, to social approval,to awareness of the need. to restrain antisocial motives and intentions, the renunciation of criminal involvement, independence in determining their objectives and their life path. On the contrary., in the content of the value-motivational. sphere of the personality of convicts who do not get education tendencies to cultivation of a criminal orientation, the dominance of aspirations to self-reliance and independence are seen. The article can be of use to psychologists practitioners, as well as for staff members of the service for the sentence execution.