Poczucie bezpieczeństwa osób pozbawionych wolności w kontekście bezpieczeństwa społecznego i psychologicznego

Abstract

Safety is the issue considered from various perspectives: legal, ethical, psychological, political, etc. However, any analyses are aimed at one purpose, i.e. defining its determinants in the context of resources being strengthened and risk factors (threats) being reduced/eliminated. Penal institution is a specific social environment, artificially established by humans, the purpose of which is to protect society from those who are dangerous and breach legal and moral standards in a given social group. Nevertheless, the cognitive objective of the article consisted in analysing the issues pertaining to the sense of safety of those deprived of liberty assuming that it constitutes the basis of psychological safety. Accordingly, a diagnostic survey was conducted on 150 persons deprived of liberty and placed in penal institutions on the territory of the Lublin Province. The Sense of Safety Questionnaire by Zenon Uchnast was employed and the empirical data gathered were subject to statistical analysis with the account taken of the following variables: place of residence, age of the surveyed, addiction to psychoactive substances.