Abstract
The implementation of the probation service in Ukraine has considerably activated the questions of working out the new approaches to the social work with different categories of the persons having the problems with the law. In this article we try to examine the essence and peculiarities of socio-educational work with the convicted persons as innovative practice for probation service and the efficiency of its implementation at present stage in Ukraine. The probation service we consider as the subject of the social work, because it includes the specific directions and functions, which are directed to the decision of the client’s social problems, incl. it provides the socio-educational work implementation for the purpose of the convicted persons’ correction. Having analyzed the experience of the probation service socio-educational work we can separate such main directions: consultative help, assistance in the job placement, attraction for study, participation in the breeding actions and socio-useful activity. We’ve formulated and characterized the basic possible problems and needs of the probation subject. With the help of diagnostic methodic we’ve analyzed the basic problems and needs of Nizhyn and regional probation service department clients and proranged according to the level of town criminology the dynamic factors of the risk. The definition the client’s problems and needs is an outgoing and necessary stage of one of the basic and innovative technologies of the socio-educational work with the probation subjects – the technology of the case-management. And one of the new practices in the probation service work the implementation of the probation programs becomes. The program includes a series of measures aimed at correcting social behavior or its individual manifestations, forming socially favorable changes in the individual. The questions of the probation service personnel and methodical support in Ukraine need further scientific research, the interaction of the probation institutions with the other social institutions for the clients’ problems decision.
Highlights
The implementation of the new socio-jurisdictional institution in Ukraine – the probation service that is caused by the necessity of the fulfillment of our state international obligations, concerning the broader introduction of alternative kinds of the punishment, has considerably activated the questions of working out the new approaches to the social work with different categories of the persons having the problems with the law
The character reference of the probation service essence let us regard this institution as a subject of social work, as far as it includes the specific directions and functions that are aimed at the considerable decision of the broad spectrum of the clients’ problems among which there are social problems
The probation is considered as criminal-juridical but so as a socio-educational institution, which essence is on the one hand is the supervising and control, on the other hand is the individual work with the transgressor, his escort and support, and concentrated more on his correction than on the punishment of the person
Summary
The implementation of the new socio-jurisdictional institution in Ukraine – the probation service that is caused by the necessity of the fulfillment of our state international obligations, concerning the broader introduction of alternative kinds of the punishment, has considerably activated the questions of working out the new approaches to the social work with different categories of the persons having the problems with the law. The character reference of the probation service essence let us regard this institution as a subject of social work, as far as it includes the specific directions and functions that are aimed at the considerable decision of the broad spectrum of the clients’ problems among which there are social problems. Reforms in this area are far from complete, but the relevance of scientific research is indisputable. Pahomov and others), that’s why the necessity of the essential investigation of probation activity aspects remains urgent, all the more, the essence of the socio-educational work has been legally secured as one of its directions
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