Connections Between Psychosocial Characteristics and the Responsiveness of Sentenced Individuals to the Applied Penitentiary Treatment
Keywords:
treatment, offenders, sociopsychological traits, responsivenessAbstract
Based upon results of contemporary research in the application of penitentiary treatment, identification of the subject of this paper began from the assumption that correctional rehabilitation needs to be adapted to offenders' traits, hence to be founded on scientific ground and efficient.
The primary aim of this paper is to focus on the analysis of the correlation among sociopsychological traits of a sample of 220 male offenders and the application of treatment in the Correctional Institution in Belgrade – Padinska Skela, the Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica, the Correctional Institution for men in Pozarevac and the Correctional Institution for juveniles in Valjevo.
Data have been collected with the instrument Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment – CJ CEST (Simpson, 2004), whilst for statistical analysis we used descriptive statistics, frequency, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination, and Cronbach's α-coefficient to determine the coefficient of reliability of the applied instrument. The obtained results suggest that with the statistical significance of p = 0.01 and the proportion of 19.2% of variability exists a moderatly correlation (r = .438) between the Scale of Sensitivity on treatment and Psychological functioning of offenders, that with the statistical significance of p = 0.03 and the proportion of 2.1% of variability there is a very low correlation (r = .146) between the Scale of Sensitivity on treatment and Social functioning of offenders, then with the statistical significance of p = 0.01 and the proportion of variance of 9.5% there is a low correlation (r = .308) between the Scale of Involvement of offenders in the treatment and Psychological functioning of offenders, while the lowest coefficient of correlation, with a proportion of 0.8% of variability, observed between the Scale of Involvement of offenders in the treatment and Social functioning of offenders (r = .092), whereas it does not have the power of statistical significance (p = 0.48), so the correlation between these scales is almost non-existent.
In the concluding remarks, it can be derived that the initial hypothesis is confirmed, considering that the responsiveness of offenders to applied penitentiary treatment is moderately positive and associated with sociopsychological traits of the test sample of offenders.
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