Several times imprisoned individuals and their experience of their own life situatio'

Darja Tadič (2012) Several times imprisoned individuals and their experience of their own life situatio'. Diploma thesis.

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Abstract

More than half of imprisoned individuals in Slovene penal institutions are formally recognised as 'recidivists'. This is the part of the population that has been arrested at least twice. Experts consider the prisoners who have been imprisoned several times a specific population and define this phenomenon of returning to penal institutions as 'recidivism'. In the theoretical part of the diploma work authoress first synthetised different definitions of the term 'recidivist', overviewed some characteristics which are ascribed to recidivists by different authors and focused on certain forms of social reactions to the phenomenon of recidivism. Authoress also tried to describe its position in the society. The research part of diploma focuses on describing recidivism through the subjective perspective of a person who has been imprisoned several times and his narration about his life position. The research includes two individuals, both formally detected as recidivists. The results of the research pointed to many specific individual characteristics of life paths of the interviewees.

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