UNELE ASPECTE DE INTERDISCIPLINARITATE ÎN ABORDAREA PROBLEMATICII RECIDIVISMULUI
Some aspects of interdisciplinarity in addressing the recidivist problem

Summary/Abstract: If the purpose of the penalty is the prevention of other offences, and one of the functions of the penalty is the re-education of the convict, then the phenomenon of recidivism proves their utopian character. The efficiency of the punitive penal system is defied. The crisis of the punitive penal system is obvious.Over the years, specialists from different fields have tried to answer the same question: how can the relapse phenomenon be prevented, fought against, or at least diminished?Up to now, this question has not been answered yet. Specialists have reached the conclusion that this phenomenon could at most be reduced, but not eliminated. Following the principle according to which, in order to remove the effect, you need to remove the cause, getting to know the causes of relapse is of larger interest than the relapse itself. The article approaches the phenomenon of recidivism from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting some information gathered from the field of criminology, judicial psychology and criminal policy.The causes and factors generating a deviant behaviour have been approached within two large groups of theory: constitutional theories, according to which crime is innate and has subsequently its origin in the individual himself, the biological and genetic factors and the theories of the social environment, which considers delinquency a product of the influence of the environment on the formation of the individual’s personality. The number of theories is quite large, yet none of them offers any explanation for the whole ensemble of the anti-social behaviour. Recidivism, as a complex social phenomenon, exceeds all theoretical abstraction and generalization. The present issue of preventing the phenomenon of relapse imposes theoretical clarification and field investigations, approaching the criminal tendencies in time and space, their causes, the limitations of the prison system, the domains and principles which justify the actions and prevention programs, the necessity of prevention acts and above all, the necessity of approaching the matter from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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