Influence on needs of the condemned: general description and algorithm

Considering the diverse nature of separate blocks, groups of needs, the article focuses on the general questions of influence on the structure of needs of the person serving sentence in the form of imprisonment. The measures of punishment with the purpose of positive transformations of the condemned are inefficient if in the course of realization they are focused on forming deficient needs of existence. The person cannot have these needs when dissatisfied with the need of existence. The nature of needs of the person in safety represents a homeostatic system; therefore, the condemned serving punishment should be placed in the conditions where the needs under consideration can be realized. Within the punishment process it is necessary to provide formation and satisfaction of needs in safety in two forms. It is need in safety both when and after serving the sentence. Need in belonging is not exclusively homeostatic in nature. Accordingly, influence on realizing the given need is not fraught for life and health of the condemned. It is necessary to consider that owing to the discreteness of homeo-heterostatic relations the extreme forms of influence on the need considered are admissible only during a short time period. Needs of the person are mainly of homeostatic or heterostatic nature. Within the process of the punishment focused on changing the personality of the condemned, the influence on homeostatic needs is inexpedient, as both their deficiency and proficiency do not actualise more complicated needs, which are a condition for the desirable, socially comprehensible transformation of the person condemned. Homeostatic needs should be satisfied to such an extent that needs of higher levels appear. Heterostatic needs by their nature assume a possibility of transformation of the personality. However, they are to be developed to the level of influencing the condemned person. Created and actualised heterostatic needs are object to target influence directed at transformation of the person. Influence forms can be both stimulation of the created needs, and their oppression

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