Justiția procedurală în mediul penitenciar și reducerea riscului de recidivă
Procedural justice in prison environment and decreasing the risk of reoffending

Summary/Abstract: Compliance with the human rights standards in Romania’s penitentiaries has been interdisciplinary analyzed by social and legal researchers. Several issues underlined by such studies, mainly the dynamics of recidivism and the influence of the penitentiary environment on the behavior of the inmates and prison staff, are essential elements for the framework analysis of the standards for human rights protection in penitentiaries. A perspective which has not been used frequently in Romania for the study of the social reintegration and risk of reoffending is the theoretical framework of procedural justice, which argues that when the individuals consider that a measure is just and applied in a fair manner, they more easily accept its legitimacy and the institutional authority. The present article’s objective is to underline the positive effects of implementing a procedural justice approach in penitentiaries, coherent with the standards for protection of human rights, which positively impacts on the risk of reoffending and with on safety during detention, respectively decreasing the violent incidents between inmates or between inmates and prison staff.

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