Correction of convicts by reorientation of their emotional-volitional qualities
The article examines scientific approaches to the study of the emotional and volitional spheres of convicts’ personality, their importance for the organization of corrective impact, corrective and preventive work with various categories of convicts. The subject of the article is the official statistics, scien- tific literature on the problem considered. The aim was to study the emotional and volitional qualities of convicts. The methodological basis of the research was formed by the system-structural, formal-logical methods, general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. As a result of the work carried out, the concepts of «emotional sphere of personality» and «volitional sphere of personality» were studied in relation to the realities of the penitentiary society. The results of a study of the emotional-volitional qualities of convicts are presented, the classification of convicts according to their emotional-volitional qualities is substantiated. Conclusions are made about increasing the effectiveness of corrective impact on convicts, taking into account the results of the pilot study. Key words: convicts, emotional and volitional personality traits, diagnostics, correction, corrective impact.