Psychological Problems of Penitentiary System of Nigeria

Аннотация:

The article is devoted to social and psychological problems of the prisoners’ personality of “Oba” and “Ibara” prisons in Nigeria. Interactionism is used as a basic methodological approach and it allows to take into consideration the interaction of the personality in small and big social groups. The methods of research are: the personal questionnaire, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. The social and psychological factors influencing the personality of a prisoner were singled out as an outcome of the questionnaire survey. After cluster analysis we subdivided the factors into internal (a factor named "Uncritical self-esteem" – "Critical self-esteem") and external. The last ones are divided into factors connected with the prison ("adaptation to prison" – "disadaptation in prison", a time factor) and factors connected with the prisoner's attitude towards the social norms ("Factors of social adaptation" - "Factors of social disadaptation").