Social and role personality characteristic of minor criminal condemned to corrective works

Social and role personalitycharacteristic of minor criminal condemned to corrective works is considered in this article. It assumes research of social positions androles of persons, their social and role fields. The social position represents a set of relations in the social system. The consideredcharacteristic allows seeing the criminal's personality in reality, which follows from this person's performance of certain social roles.Analysis of the behaviour of the minor, condemned to corrective works, from the moment of commission of crime is necessary as amechanism, allowing to characterize the personality of most of the condemned. The minor, condemned to corrective works,simultaneously occupies a set of social positions: in a family s/he is a son (daughter), at his/her workplace - a worker, in an educationalinstitution - a pupil. Only 53.6% of minors, condemned to corrective works in Tomsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk (2005-2010), studiedin various educational institutions at the moment of commission of crime. In the poll among the minors condemned to corrective works,almost all of them (about 90%) have specified that they do not have a desire to study, which explains their skipping classes and poorstudy results. Teachers notice that, as a rule, this age category of the condemned has controversial relations with contemporaries, areoften rude with teachers. The majority of the minors (75.5%) have negative characteristics from workplace in many respects caused byinfringement of labour discipline: negligent relation to labour functions performance, in particular, poor-quality performance of theduties, and being regularly late for work. 24.5% of the minors are positively characterized minors in the organization, at the enterprise;encouragement measures are applied to them according to the labour legislation. Among the measures of encouragements specified inArticle 191 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation employers basically make gratitude announcements. 98% of employersspecified announcing gratitude as a way of encouragement of the worker; one employer mentioned "sending a letter of gratitude to thefamily of the minor" as an encouragement measure. Encouragement appears in the order of the employer. Not a single employerspecified a simultaneous application of several kinds of encouragement concerning the minor worker. The poll of the minors has shownthat the majority of them (75.47%) have peculiar negative attitude to the duties in the family, namely, helping parents with the house,stating they do not have to do it.

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