The Role of Adult Education in the Process of Resocialization

Abstract

In the article the education as an integral part of criminal penalties and terms of successful reintegration into society of citizens who committed crimes. Considered educational standard regarding prisoners. Education has an important role in the resocialization of persons who have committed crimes and to prevent recidivism and security of society. Education in prisons helps soften the profile and improve the conditions of detention and the fact has education in prison is an important means of adaptation, prisoners returning to society. According to Art. 6, 125, 126 CPC of Ukraine one of the main means of achieving the goal of penitentiary process-correction and resocialization of convicts – are secondary and vocational training. Each prison authorities should strive to provide all convicts access to educational programs should be as broad and meet the individual needs of prisoners, responding with their aspirations. Priority should be given to prisoners who cannot read, write and count, as well as prisoners who do not have basic education or vocational training. Education prisoners must be integrated into the national system of education and training, so that after their release they can seamlessly continue their education and training. Higher education of persons deprived of their liberty, albeit slowly, but still evolving. The difficulties of this process are associated primarily not with the social stereotypes about the «closeness» of the penitentiary institutions and not with the lack of desire of universities to teach convicts, and a lack of legal, organizational and scientific-methodical bases of the provision of such education in Ukraine. The penitentiary system of Ukraine became more open, humane and in the parameters closer to the European standards. The penitentiary system of modern Ukraine, creating for the convicted students the necessary conditions for education, is considering raising the educational level of prisoners as one of the main criteria of their correction, socialization and rehabilitation.