SCREENING INSPECTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERAL PENITENTIARY SERVICE

• Main Author: O. N. Mazeina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2016-07-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: screening; screening verification; screening inspections; special psychophysiological researches; polygraph technologies; “risk factors”
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1934

The paper is devoted conducting the screening inspections in educational establishments of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Conducting special psychophysiological researches in such educational institutions is the most effective method of preventing the criminal-executive system from admitting the students with mercenary motivation, promt to addictive forms of behavior as early as at the stage of professional selection. The paper considers the «risk factors» that could hinder future penitentiary system staff’s successful execution of their official duties defame their honour and dignity.The paper analyzes the results of the screening researches of the applicants of Kuzbass Institute of the FPS of Russia, which allowed implementing organizational and competence questions. 15 % of the entrants manifested the proof reaction to such meaningful stimuli, as: the use of psychoactive and narcotic substances is with non-medical aims; disorder of conduct, related to the use of alcohol; misconducts petty offences for which the applicant was not charged; steady forms of the aggressive reacting in conflict situations; addiction to games and gambling.The results may allow the polygraph specialists to conduct the procedure of psychophysiological examination with a plygraph at a higher level both due to the procedure of testing and taking in the account the age-dependent features of the respondents.The further study of the material examined in the paper should be directed on upgrading students’ educational and official activity, preventing their commitment of offences, providing competent security of the penitentiary system in general.