Agnieszka Lewicka-Zelent

Justice, equality, responsibility and freedom have already been widely discussed, especially in the fields of philosophy and law. From a practical point of view, there is a need to evaluate these values in the context of rehabilitation pedagogy. They are gaining special importance in resocialization activities conducted in penitentiary institutions. There is a constant search for effective ways to re-socialize socially maladjusted people. It seems that the combination of the above-mentioned values is found in the idea of redress. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to determine the level of readiness of persons serving prison sentences to redress the victims. For this purpose, an analysis was performed of the results of study carried out in a group of 140 people, half of whom were women. Half of the people at the time of the study were imprisoned in penitentiary institutions. The results of the research indicate significant deficiencies in the readiness of the respondents, especially the prisoners, to undertake corrective actions.

Defining concepts such as prevention and rehabilitation rarely poses any problems. Nevertheless, they can be explained from different perspectives, which directly translates into the selection of appropriate methods of exerting influence on the subjects. Among these, minors are a special group of rehabilitation pupils, given the greater opportunity to exert educational influence on them than on adult offenders. Mediation can be understood as a way to facilitate their social reintegration and preventing certain dysfunctions in the field of psychosocial functioning. Therefore, attempts have been made to isolate the advantages of mediation in cases involving minors, thus emphasizing its importance in the process of rehabilitation of young people violating legal norms.

People, naturally afraid of losing social approval, often make insincere comments on topics that can be considered morally problematic. The ones often mentioned are: abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty. Despite the occasional research into the public opinion on this subject, such diagnoses are much less frequent in the group of people serving prison sentences. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to collect the views on these matters from prisoners of closed and semiopen penitentiary institutions. The results show some variation in the opinions of the compared groups of people, which has been considered social maladjustment in varying degrees.