Open AccessEx-convict stigma caused by the social re-adaptation process
Author(s) -
Anna Fidelus
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
forum pedagogiczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2449-7142
pISSN - 2083-6325
DOI - 10.21697/fp.2013.1.06
Subject(s) - convict , phenomenon , criminology , prison , identity (music) , stigma (botany) , social identity theory , social phenomenon , social psychology , psychology , process (computing) , context (archaeology) , sociology , social group , epistemology , social science , psychiatry , philosophy , paleontology , physics , computer science , acoustics , biology , operating system
Social re-adaptation of people with criminal record and former prison inmates is a complex process conditioned by various factors. This article views the concept of social stigmatisation as both a phenomenon and a process. Individuals with criminal record have always been victims of social labelling irrespective of progressive changes in their behaviour. Labelling attitudes of social surroundings do not contribute to the elimination of criminal identity, but – on the contrary – they consolidate such an identity, thus, complicating construction of a new social- and self-identities. In the context of the solutions presented in the article concerning the problem of the stigmatisation of former prisoners, the society needs to realise the negative consequences of this phenomenon.