Convicted women staying in the correctional facility: socio-demographic structure and problems of social adaptation
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Rostovskaya T.K., Vasilieva E.N., Rusanova E.I. (2024) Convicted women staying in the correctional facility: socio-demographic structure and problems of social adaptation. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology), 27(2): 233–265 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2024.27.2.9 EDN: EBTILO
Abstract
The work examines the dynamics of female crime in Russia for 2011–2022, discusses the socio-demographic structure of convicted women serving sentences in correctional colonies and problems of social adaptation. The relevance of the study is determined by the practical problems of introducing and implementing probation technologies in modern Russia, as well as theoretical problems caused by insufficient knowledge of everyday practices and problems of social adaptation of women in the Russian penitentiary system. As a result, Russian sociology has not formed ideas about the behavioral strategies of convicted women while serving their sentences and after leaving correctional colonies. Object of study: everyday practices of social adaptation of convicted women. Subject of the study: the influence of the status position of a convicted woman in the socio-demographic structure on the everyday practices of her social adaptation. Purpose of the study: to identify problems of social adaptation of convicted women depending on their socio-demographic status. In the first part of the work: the socio-demographic structure of women convicted and committed crimes is analyzed based on Russian statistics for 2011–2021. The second part of the work: the problems of adaptation of convicted women after leaving correctional institutions are systematized on the basis of data from an expert interview with psychologists of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (n=4) and specialists from socially oriented non-profit organizations (SO NPO) working with women after their release from a correctional facility (n=4). As a result of the study, the following data were obtained. Social status determines social practices and the effectiveness of social adaptation of convicted women. When implementing the probation law, it is necessary to consider the most vulnerable categories of women who have been released (women with minor children, dependent women, people of retirement age, women without stable social ties, and those who do not have the opportunity to find a job due to restrictions in the regional labor market).
Keywords:
socio-demographic structure of convicted women, social status, everyday practices, correctional colony, social adaptation, probation
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Barkan S.E., Bryjak G.J. (2011) Fundamentals of Criminal Justice. Sadbury, MA: Jones and Barlett learning.
Brushett R.A. (2013) Typologies of Female Offenders: A Latent Class Analysis Using the Women's Risk Needs Assessment. University of Cincinnati.
Coston C.T.M., Ross L.E. (1998) Criminal victimization of prostitutes: empirical support for the lifestyle/exposure model. Journal of crime and justice, 21(1): 53–70.
Errol Z., Madsen J.B., Moslehi S. (2021) Social disorganization theory and crime in the advanced countries: Two centuries of evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 191: 519–537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.09.017ю
Gavrilova E., Campaniello N. (2015) Uncovering the Gender Participation Gap in the Crime. IZA Discussion Paper, 8982. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2598922.
Hamberger L.K. (1997) Female Offenders in Domestic Violence: A Look at Actions in Their Context. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1: 115–127.
Kazakova V.A. (2011) Zhenshchiny, otbyvayushchie lishenie svobody (obshchaya harakteristika). Po materialam special'noj perepisi osuzhdennyh i lic, soderzhashchihsya pod strazhej, 12–18 noyabrya 2009 g. [Women serving imprisonment (general characteristics). Based on materials from a special census of convicts and persons in custody, November 12–18, 2009]. Iss. 5. Moscow: Yurisprudenciia (in Russian).
Kazakova V.A., Stepanov K.S. (2011) Zhenshchiny, otbyvayushchie lishenie svobody (harakteristika otdel'nyh kategorij). Po materialam special'noj perepisi osuzhdennyh i lic, soderzhashchihsya pod strazhej, 12–18 noyabrya 2009 g. [Women serving imprisonment (characteristics of individual categories). Based on materials from a special census of convicts and persons in custody, November 12–18, 2009]. Iss. 6. Moscow: Yurisprudenciia (in Russian).
Kuntz E.V. (2021) Tendencii prestupnosti zhenshchin i ispolneniya v ih otnoshenii nakazaniya v vide lisheniya svobody [Trends in crime among women and the execution of prison sentences against them]. Vedomosti ugolovno-ispolnitel'noj sistemy [Gazette of the penal system], 10: 15–20 (in Russian).
Larroulet P., Daza S., Bórquez I. (2023) From prison to work? Job-crime patterns for women in a precarious labor market. Social Science Research, 110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102844ю
Liu L., Chui W.-H., Hu Y. (2022) In the name of love: A narrative analysis of a Chinese single mother's rational and emotional pathways into and out of crime. Asian Journal of Social Science, 50: 276–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2022.04.003ю
Neanidis K.C., Papadopoulou V. (2013) Crime, fertility, and economic growth: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 91: 101–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.04.007.
Osokin R.B., Polyakova V.O. (2016) Dostizhenie rezul'tatov ispravitel'nogo vozdejstviya pri ispolnenii lishenii svobody v otnoshenii osuzhdennyh lic zhenskogo pola: specifika, osnovnye problemy i puti ih resheniya [Achieving the results of correctional influence during the execution of imprisonment in relation to convicted female persons: specifics, main problems and ways to solve them]. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta MVD Rossii [Bulletin of Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia], 3: 130–135 (in Russian).
Potapov A.M., Lepchikov A.N. (2016) O lichnosti osuzhdennyh, osvobozhdaemyh ot otbyvaniya nakazaniya v vide lisheniya svobody [On the identity of convicts released from serving a sentence of imprisonment] Nauchno-prakticheskij zhurnal «Penitenciarnaya nauka» VIPE FSIN Rossii. Rubrika «Yuridicheskie nauki» [Scientific and practical journal “Penitentiary Science” of the All-Russian Institute of Penitentiary Education of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Category "Legal sciences"], 3(35): 23–30 (in Russian).
Rostovskaya T.K., Bezverbnaya N.A. (2020) Violence against women: Global trends. Woman in Russian Society, 2: 89–98. https://doi.org/10.21064/WinRS.2020.2.8.
Rostovskaya T.K., Bezverbnaya N.A. (2021) Osobennosti i tendencii zhenskoj prestupnosti v Rossii [Features and trends in female crime in Russia] Sotzialnoe prostranstvo [Social space], 7(1). https://doi.org/10.15838/sa.2021.1.28.3 [http://socialarea-journal.ru/article/28857] (accessed: 10.10.2023) (in Russian).
Rostovskaya T.K., Kaliev T.B., Zavyalova N.B., Bezverbnyy V.A. (2018) Prevention of violence as a factor of family security: Russian and Kazakhstan experience. Woman in Russian Society, 1: 78–88. https://doi.org/10.21064/WinRS.2018.1.7.
Rostovskaya T.K., Narutto S.V., Voroshilova S.V. (2022) Pravovoj status i social'naya adaptaciya molodyh zhenshchin, osvobozhdaemyh iz mest lisheniya svobody: monografiya [Legal status and social adaptation of young women released from prison: monograph] Moscow: Prospekt. https://doi.org/10.19181/monogr.978-5-392-33707-1.2022 (in Russian).
Rostovskaya T.K., Rusanova E.I. (2023) Zhenskaya prestupnost' v Rossii: sostoyanie, tendentzii, posledstviya [Women's crime in Russia: status, trends, consequences]. Ekonomika. Pravo. Obshchestvo [Economy. Right. Society], 1(33): 163–174. https://doi.org/10.21686/2411-118X-2023-1-163-174 (in Russian).
Seliverstov V.I., Seliverstov I.V. (2012) Pravovoe polozhenie litz, osvobozhdaemyh ot otbyvaniya nakazaniya v vide lisheniya svobody po aktu ob amnistii (problemy teorii) [Legal status of persons released from serving a sentence of imprisonment under the amnesty act (theory problems)]. Rossijskij ezhegodnik ugolovnogo prava [Russian Yearbook of Criminal Law], 6: 114–479 (in Russian).
Shcherbakova E.M. (2023) Prestupnost v Rossii, 2022 god [Crime in Russia, 2022] Demoscope Weekly [Demoskop Weekly], 987–988 [https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2023/0987/barom06.php] (in Russian).
Shiyan V.I. (2016) Sotzial'no-demograficheskaya kharakteristika lichnosti zhenshchin-prestupnitz [Socio-demographic characteristics of the personality of female criminals] Prestupnost', ugolovnaya politika, zakon. Rossijskaya kriminologicheskaya associaciya [Crime, criminal policy, law. Russian Criminological Association]: 93–98 (in Russian).
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Received: 06.07.2023
Accepted: 11.06.2024
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Rostovskaya, T.K., Vasilieva, E.N. and Rusanova, E.I. 2024. Convicted women staying in the correctional facility: socio-demographic structure and problems of social adaptation. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology). 27, 2 (Jun. 2024), 233–265. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2024.27.2.9.
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