Disciplinary offenses in correctional facilities

Abstract

Security in prisons presents significant challenges for professionals in the Penal Enforcement Administration. Violence within the convicted collective, violence against officials, substance abuse and other forms of disregard of house rules are some examples of the heterogeneous phenomenology of disciplinary offenses in penal institutions. Given the importance of this phenomenon, the subject of this paper is the disciplinary offenses of the person serving the sentence, while the goal of the work is to define the phenomenology and risk factors that are related to the frequency of this type of security problem. In addition to a critical review of the relevant provisions of the Law on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, the paper presents the results of the research carried out in the Novi Sad District Prison which included all initiated disciplinary proceedings initiated in 2015 in the aforementioned institution. The obtained results indicate the importance of drug abuse and recidivsm as risk factors for disciplinary offenses, as well as the ineffectiveness of the / legal norms in a preventive and corrective sense.

Bezbednost u zatvorima predstavlja značajan izazove za profesionalce u Upravi za izvršenje krivičnih sankcija. Nasilje unutar osuđeničkog kolektiva, nasilje prema službenim licima, zloupotreba supstanci i drugi oblici nepoštovanja pravila kućnog reda neki su od primera heterogene fenomenologije disciplinskih prestupa u penalnim ustanovama. S obzirom na važnost date pojave, predmet ovog rada predstavljaju upravo disciplinski prestupi lica na izdržavanju kazne, dok se kao cilj rada definiše utvrđivanje fenomenologije i rizičnih faktora koji se dovode u vezu sa učestalošću ove vrste bezbednosnih problema. U radu su, pored kritičkog osvrta na relevantne odredbe Zakona o izvršenju krivičnih sankcija, predstavljeni i rezultati istraživanja sprovedenog u Okružnom zatvoru u Novom Sadu koje je obuhvatilo sve pokrenute disciplinske postupke pokrenute tokom 2015.godine u navedenoj ustanovi. Dobijeni rezultati upućuju na značaj zloupotrebe droga i povratnišvo kao faktore rizika vršenja disciplinskih prestupa, kao i neefikasnost pod/zakonskih normi u preventivnom i korektivnom smislu.