Value Profile of Convicted Women Demonstrating Different Levels of Legal Consciousness

The article presents the results of the empirical study of the value profile of convicted women demonstrating different levels of legal consciousness. The study was conducted in 2020-2022 on the basis of correctional institutions located in Siberian Federal District. The sample of the study was made up of 1029 convicted women aged 20 to 35 years serving their sentences for the first time. The diagnostic complex included the following techniques: “The Test of Legal and Civil Consciousness” (L.A. Yasyukova), “Differential Scale of Actual Values” (N.A. Samoylik), “The Test of Life Orientations” (D.A. Leontiev). It is empirically proved that the situational value profile of women with legal nihilism is characterized by humanity, optimism, understanding of labor prestige, as well as by a low level of justice and predominance of temporary perspectives presentment in the minds of convicts. The value profile of convicted women with a partial manifestation of legal consciousness is characterized by the semantic fullness of life based on the values of intellectual development, self-development and sociability and is defined as variable. The structure of a stable value profile of convicts with a formed legal consciousness includes responsibility, mannerliness, self-control and conscientiousness. These results can be used in conducting individual counseling and correctional work aimed at forming the value sphere and legal consciousness of women serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty.

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