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Petrulevich I.A. Value orientations in the structure of life strategies of convicts serving sentences in the southern regions of Russia. Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2024; 3(4). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/06SPN424.pdf (in Russian).

Value orientations in the structure of life strategies of convicts serving sentences in the southern regions of Russia

Petrulevich Irina Anatolyevna
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
E-mail: iapetrulevich@sfedu.ru

Abstract. In recent decades, young people have been one of the priority areas of social work in our country. Those sentenced to imprisonment are considered to be the most difficult due to their specific legal status and living conditions. Traditionally, in sociological science, people sentenced to imprisonment are considered to be «silent» and difficult to interview from the perspective of collecting empirical material. And even more so, if we talk about people of young age. Based on the materials of mass sociological surveys, the article examines the value bases of the life strategies of young convicts serving prison sentences in four southern regions of the Russian Federation. 604 people were interviewed using a standardized interview method. The sample included only convicts aged 20 to 30 years. The regions and the quantitative composition of the respondents were distributed as follows: Rostov Region — 197 people; Krasnodar Territory — 149 people; Adygea — 115 people; Stavropol Territory — 143 people. The results of an empirical study allowed the author to identify competing models of life strategies for the self-realization of convicts of youth age. In particular, their determinative basis is two independent factors: (1) the age characteristics of the convicted persons; (2) the territorial location of their permanent place of residence and the place of serving their sentence of imprisonment. In addition, each of these factors can be determined not only by the experience of being in a correctional institution, but also by the pre-prison experience of the convict. All this affects the value level of the life strategies of young convicts in the southern regions of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: life strategies; image of the convicts’ world; convicts’ life plans; convicts’ life scenarios; convicts’ life goals; values; young convicts; South of Russia

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