Features of the formation of traditions and customs in the criminal environment of penitentiary institutions

Abstract

Subject of research: the article discusses how traditions are formed in a criminal environment, how they influence convicts and how they contribute to the commission of penitentiary institutions.
 Purpose of research: to get acquainted with the traditions and customs of the criminal environment, the conditions for their formation and the impact on convicts in the process of serving their sentences.
 Methods and objects of research: the article uses such general scientific research methods as: generalization, analysis and synthesis, concretization.
 Main results of research: it was determined that the main carriers, criminal traditions are professional criminals who most often commit repeated violations of the regime of detention or are persistent violators. The author believes that criminal traditions are a way of life of convicts, in which a criminal way of life is encouraged. Traditions regulate the order of relations among convicts, are corporate in nature and approve of violence against other convicts who are not members of criminal groups.