4

Editorial

Welcome to the second edition of PROBATION junior Journal, volume I.

Based on day to day observations and research we delve into new debates regarding

the penal system.

With this new edition, we remain confident that young people have strong

and formative ideas without interdisciplinary limits and look to challenge current

trends by bringing forth questions and creative mitigation strategies to better our

existing system. We engage now in analyzing the extremely interesting subjects

such as social work, psychology, sociology, law, and theology, all diverse in their

own respects but also complementary to each other.

The penitentiary for many exists as a mesmerizing and repulsive world.

However, it remains in a constant state of permanent state of chaos. The corrections

system combines the existence of crime, failure, pathology, stress, despair, and

helplessness; all of which serve as the catalyst for pandemonium.

The discussion of the penal system in the first edition of PROBATION

Junior we move to the concept of liberty, recidivism in drug consumption, the lives

of imprisoned persons, the root causes of criminal behavior in adolescents, and

human rights.

As a person entrusted with freedom, one has legal liability before the law

and the society, if he/she judgment lends to malicious activities and/or irrational

behavior. Freedom is the symphony and social equilibrium existent in a human

being. This freedom is shown in our effort to not alter the lifestyle choices of others.

The recidivism in drugs consumption is a part of the processes of which the

addicted person is riding on the hope of abandoning his/her habit or to get in control

of his/her drug addiction. We will follow in this research to develop a restricted

5

evaluation in terms of need for services in the case of ex drug users, after their

release from prison.

Asylums, one of the outstanding books by sociologist Erving Goffman

provides a comprehensive view on the lives of imprisoned persons, detailing

aspects which, although known by many, are subjects very difficult to grasp.

Goffman awakens the reader's interest in how the various institutions have their

own value systems, their own culture, and practice their own universe.

To highlight causes and conditions that generate and promote the criminal

behavior in minors is another subject we attempt to understand in this edition; by

interviewing 40 subjects from the Prison of Juvenile and Young in Tichileti.

Finally but not of least importance, we will discuss the notion of human

rights, which permits individuals to develop his own efficient qualities.

We strongly believe that these themes besides being subjects of continual

debate are consistent with the development of a better penal system in the future.

The Redaction Team