Information technologies for resocialization of minors convicted of drug crimes

Abstract

The serious concern of many specialists, who deal with the problems of drug addiction, regarding counteracting the spread of drug addiction among juvenile population and establishing the efficient targeted informational influences on underaged drug users and drug criminals for their social (psychological and pedagogical support) prompted the Author to write this Article. The article deals with both traditional, worldwide known rehabilitation approaches to drug addicted teenagers, and fundamentally new methods that take advantages of the digital environment. The Author paid particular attention to the analysis of the positive changes that (thanks to IT technologies) contributed to the formation of anti-drug attitudes, constructive motivation, and legal behavior skills of deviant minors who participated in the experiment. The Author also presented the data on psychological testing, that demonstrated the dynamics of empirical response of the adolescent in course of restoring their self-control and self-regulation, awakening their willingness to gaining new knowledge, to becoming successful and creative members of the information society. The Author comes to the conclusion that the digital environment can either destroy a child or form his/her positive attitudes, constructive motivation, readiness to give up drugs, to reintegrate, as well as serve as a tool that gives advice and signals to the appropriate specialists about the successful recovery of a client or (on the contrary) about a sudden deterioration of his/her condition (crisis, breakdowns, etc.).