Keyword: «moral conscience»

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.