Social signs and their role in the typology of convicted persons

This article considers social attributes and their role in the typology of the convicted. The problem which reduces to the verification of the formulated hypothesis is specified: a community of convicted persons develops its own division criteria and the present status of the convicted person in this community is more significant for personal transformations than his former one, and its characterizing indicators. In this regard, we studied convicts serving their sentence in colonies with different types of custodial control. It is concluded that the signs of stratification, developed in the self-organization process for the community of convicts, are more important as compared to social features according to which citizens in freedom are differentiated. In this regard, one can state that the personal qualities that appear under the influence of detention conditions are primarily concerned with the stratification signs, as long as we do not deny the dominant influence of the social environment with a set of roles that it offers individuals.