Psychological characteristics of women, serving a sentence of imprisonment

On the basis of the study of criminal motivation of women in situations of imprisonment revealed that the causes of motivation to commit crimes is influenced by the events and the psychological state of women. Psychological peculiarities of formation of criminal motivation is expressed in increased anxiety, emotion, and sensibility, and social background of the formation of criminal motivation are: conflicts in the family, in the process of learning, the need for self-affirmation in society, the problems of material well-being. The study of psychological features of this category of prisoners leads to the conclusion that condemned women are finding it difficult to adapt to the conditions and the order of punishment, especially for the first time condemned to imprisonment who are not psychologically ready to accept others. The research results confirmed the specific conditions, which are expressed at a higher overvoltage, overexcitation, excessive braking reactions. In this regard, there is a need to develop a mechanism of impact on women prisoners, taking into account their psychological, physiological characteristics and gender differences between women and men. Observations have shown that the period of punishment anticipation of the upcoming release affects the behavior of women. For example, the psychological mechanism of adaptation among the prisoners in the unit of the colony is evident in the minimal mobility and therefore before the liberation and in the first months of life in freedom are able to criminalize the behavior. The decline in adaptive abilities of women negatively manifested during entry into society after release. On the basis of the conducted researches it is revealed that the age group from 18 to 39 years negative-minded women after release from the penal colony will have difficulties in the process of re-socialization. Positive effect on social adaptation of women released from the penal colony, have individual moral, psychological preparation for life in freedom, promoting the labour and household device women that provides an obstacle to the development of criminal activity and contributes to the reduction of relapse.