Number: Vol.II, No.4, 2011 

Editorial

Written by PROBATION junior's Team

With the fourth edition volume II, of PROBATION junior journal coming to a close, we deeply appreciate all of you for the enthusiasm and support you have provided over the past two years! We hope you will continue to assist us as we grow continue to grow the journal and our readership! Born from within the faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest, the journal from its...

 

Difficulties encountered by inmates in prison

Written by Crina Alexandra Curtescu

The issues surrounding the quality of life of prisoners beginning with the cells in which they live in most of the time, the rooms where they have activities and concluding with the behavior that staff adopt when it comes to detainees. Additionally, we discuss the abuse of inmates and the types of abuse they receive. However, the worst of them all is the deprivation of freedom and the opportunity...

 

Prison staff. Prison subculture, norms and values, false incarceration’s suffering

Written by Oana Cărare

The subject of prison environments have been researched and written about many times over by subject matter experts from within the criminal justice and sociology field. Much emphasis is placed on the sentences received, the suffering imprisonment, the subculture of prison, the relations between them/between them and the outside world, prison conditions etc., but very few talk about other human...

 

Rehabilitation and reintegration programs for inmates

Written by Crina Alexandra Curtescu

This paper will demonstrate the usefulness and need for rehabilitation and reintegration programs of former prisoners. The effectiveness of these programs offer advantages to both the criminals and society as a whole. The following questions will be posed and discussed in this paper “Do prisoners want to participate in reintegration programs to help them when releases? And if so, what would be...