POSSIBILITES OF RESOCIALISATION OF MINORS IN FOSTER HOMES: APPROACH OF FOSTER HOME SPECIALISTS

Abstract

Possibilities of resocialisation of minors in contemporary foster homes are analysed in the article by emphasizing this as a complex integral process which aims to distract wards from criminal behaviour through effective impact of education and surveillance. Attention is drawn to cognition of the social reality, identification of primary socialisation problems of a child, their scientific cognition, prevention, development of a child’s responsibility for his acts, importance of legal education in order to avoid application of the child’s average care measures and assurance of the ward’s welfare. The research data disclosing the most important problems of resocialisation, approach of specialists to actual possibilities of optimisation of this process are presented. It is attempted to respond to the following problematic questions with reference to the research results: how to make the process of ward resocialisation more effective by applying measures of minimum care, how to avoid repeated crimes? KEYWORDS: children foster homes, minors, criminal acts, resocialisation.