ANALYSIS OF DISCIPLINARY OFFENSES AND DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENT IN THE CLOSED PENITENTIARY IN ZENICA IN THE PERIODFROM 2020 TO 2022
ANALYSIS OF DISCIPLINARY OFFENSES AND DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENT IN THE CLOSED PENITENTIARY IN ZENICA IN THE PERIOD FROM 2020 TO 2021.
Keywords:
prison, prisoner, disciplinary offense, disciplinary measure, treatment,Abstract
Purpose: Contemporary penological principles of rehabilitation emphasize rehabilitation as the goal of serving a sentence. In practice, rehabilitation work is mostly based on one aspect of behavioral therapy, which is conditioning, which means that it is based on punishment and reward. The theory of transaction puts special emphasis on these relations. They are the main method of rehabilitating and socializing efforts and their final aim. Taking this fact as the starting point, we approached the analysis of disciplinary violations and implemented disciplinary measures in the above-mentioned prison in the period between 2020 and 2022. The purpose of the study is to establish what the tendencies are in disciplinary behavior in the aforementioned prison, or, in other words, whether the disciplinary situation is improving or getting worse.
Design/Methods/Approach: The main method we used was the analysis of the Book of Disciplinary Reports. We discuss the relationship between the committed disciplinary offense and the ensuing disciplinary measure, as well as the objections of the inmates to the imposed disciplinary measure and the time of the year when the offense was committed. All these relations were statistically processed in all three years separately and in total, with accompanying correlation relations, trends, t-ratios, and other aspects of descriptive statistics. The total sample is n=771 offenses. There was an average of 810 prisoners serving their sentences in the aforementioned period. Additionally, an opportunity presented itself for comparative analysis with a similar rational for research.
Findings: The frequency of disciplinary violation rates and reports, as well as the severity of the ensuing disciplinary measures, were different at different times of the year, which points toward variable discipline within the prison and can have serious implications for treatment goals, primarily re-socialization.
Originality/Value: The research indicates which types of disciplinary violations are stable and, indirectly, which types of deprivations are actualized through the prism of inmate disciplinary breaches. Additional significant findings include determining the tendencies in the changing frequency of particular disciplinary violations in the course of the observed timespan, determining whether there are critical periods of the year or months during which there is an increase in disciplinary violations, as well as determining the type of conflicts that occur between inmates and inmates and prison staff.
Keywords: prison, inmate, disciplinary violation, disciplinary measure, treatment.
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