TRETMAN OSUĐENIKA I VIKTIMIZACIJA U MALOLETNIČKOM ZATVORU
TREATMENT OF CONVICTS AND VICTIMIZATION IN JUVENILE PRISON

Summary/Abstract: Juvenile penitentiary correctional facility in Valjevo is the only institution of its kind in the Republic of Serbia, which executes the toughest sanctions against juveniles, who were sentenced to juvenile imprisonment. This institution has a complex and responsible task to effectively implement convicts re-education process, using appropriate services, primarily the Treatment Service. There are many obstacles on this path, and one of these is an informal associating of convicts, which often represent a counterbalance to institutional treatment. The informal convicts system is not uniform, it already contains more subsystems, which differ significantly in status and power. This difference causes different levels of victimization of convicts belonging to the informal system. This work and the research we have conducted aims to show that convicts who are in closed treatment suffer a higher degree of victimization, from prisoners in the semi-open treatment. Violence among the convicts relativize the purpose of sentencing juvenile prison and the ability of institutional resocialization approach to fulfill its role.

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