Elena Matveeva

The article discusses such an important aspect of convicts’ resocialization as their moral resocialization in prison; it examines the necessary conditions for this: formation in convicts the ability to take responsibility for their lives, instilling in them the conscience and feeling of guilt in order to remove the barrier of the offender moral self-examination. The authors define the prerequisites for development of a sense of guilt and the mechanisms through which society can influence an offender – feelings of shame and remorse as determinants of moral conscience.

This study examines and analyzes the basic components of law faculty graduates professional identity in educational environment of University. Professional identity of students was operationalized in our study as a construct that includes the motives of profession choice, the image of chosen profession, the degree of subject’s activity in the process of profession acquiring. The degree of academic work alienation was considered as an indicator of professional identity of students as adherents in the process of professional development.