Social Female Adaptation / Resocialization in the Russian Reality

Adaptation to the conditions of freedom and the resocialization of persons who served their terms is determined by a gender factor, especially in societies with a bright masculine characteristic, to which the Russian society belongs too. In such societies, the process of female post-penitentiary adaptation is more complicated, because it, as before, is dominated by a more negative attitude to female crime than to male one. This is a reflection of the specifics of a society of a masculine type, where the system of double standards influences public consciousness and determines the attitude towards persons who broke the law depending on their gender. Thus, the post-penitentiary female resocialization in Russia occurs under the influence of a combination of factors and difficulties that are typical for this period of women’s lifetime, typical of ex-prisoners in Russia and connected with a specific attitude of the society to female crime as well. This situation, in many respects, determines an unsuccessful scenario of the process of post-penitentiary female resocialization and, as a result, increases risks of recurrent crime in the female environment in the modern Russian society

Analytical Ability and Perceived Similarity to Parents

Previous research has indicated that analytical ability is a masculine characteristic, in that males score higher than females on such measures and, within sex groups, those who are classified as more masculine on measures of sex typing tend to have greater analytical ability. The present study focuses primarily on field independence as one aspect of analytical ability and was designed to test within one sample some of the relationships found in prior research in which diverse samples and measures were used. Although some of the data confirm earlier findings, especially within sex groups, the most intriguing result is that females in this sample were more field-independent than the males. Serious questions about both the measures used and the nature of the sample can be raised, making any generalization unwise, but the finding is unprecedented in published research.