EVERYDAY LIFE OF SPECIAL PRISON HOSPITAL FORENSIC PATIENTS – SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY Cover Image

SVAKODNEVNI ŽIVOT REZIDENATA SPECIJALNE ZATVORSKE BOLNICE U BEOGRADU
EVERYDAY LIFE OF SPECIAL PRISON HOSPITAL FORENSIC PATIENTS – SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

Author(s): Milana Ljubičić
Subject(s): Psychology, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Penology
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: forensic patients; everydaily life; activities; strategies;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, we have analyzed the Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade forensic patient´s narratives about everyday life. The primary objective of the analysis was to describe the daily routine and its meanings for patients. During the analysis two broad research objectives have emerged: to identify the key problems of everyday life of thise people, and mark the need for further investigation of this issue. Specifically, subject everyday life of psychiatric, and particulary, of special patients, insuffitiantly dealt with in the foreign and in home scientific literature. Their everyday life is burdened by uniformity, formally offered amenities not acceptable to them and typical mechanisms and strategies for survival to overcome boredom. Institutional setting offers a rare pleasure: food, sleeping and socializing. Findings of our study confirm this portray. We have been observing typical day spending patterns of 50 forensic patients: getting up, going to breakfast, resorting to escape strategy – sleeping, going to lunch, escape strategy – sleeping and / or socializing, dinner, escape – socializing and / or sleeping. It turned out that formally offered contents – social and psychotherapy, and work assignments, are neither useful nor acceptable to them. Thay rarely participate in occupational therapy, more common in group therapy, a mandatory work assignments and paid tasks are performed solely by those – who must, since thay have no other income.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 196-211
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian