The psychological spread of the mores of the penitentiary system in modern Russian society is due to the fact that in their daily, everyday experience, any citizen is not immune from the fact that he will have to face powerlessness in relation to people in power.
The origins of the penetration of prison laws and concepts into the everyday life of Russian citizens who do not have personal experience of imprisonment, of course, can be sought in the history of the country, where the chance to become innocently convicted was not even for every second person, but for everyone in general.
Because on one-sixth of the land, for many decades, the defense of human rights and the presumption of innocence have been viewed as suspicious in themselves.
History of the issue
During the long times of the Soviet Stalinist terror, there was not a single family that somehow did not come into contact with the zone: either from the prisoners - relatives, friends and relatives, or from the guards - people serving in the ramified system of the GULAG. People were born, raised and brought up, one way or another, daily soaked in everyday, everyday role-playing experience, enclosed in the "guard-guarded" coordinate system. The whole country lived "at the zone, at the camp."
From this system, the rules of life according to “prison concepts”, consisting of several postulates, penetrated into society: the cult of power, the cult of perverted justice, which includes the cult of punishment in justice, the romanticization of the image of a person who has been in prison, “thrown back from the prison”.
Modernity
Sociological studies carried out in recent years show that with average figures for the total number of prisoners - over 850,000 people per year (plus / minus) - at present, most of the Russian population does not have direct experience in prison. At the same time, there is general knowledge, confirmed by statistical data, that the Russian judicial system works exclusively for conviction and only in 0.7% of cases for acquittal. That is, having fallen into the millstones of the modern Russian judicial system, it is unlikely to avoid various terms of imprisonment. Therefore, the old Russian proverb "do not renounce the prison and the bag" is relevant at the present time.
The prison concepts of "justice" act as a kind of alternative to the state bodies of justice. A godfather who solves the problems of a person who has turned to him with justice, through his supervisors or with the help of “thieves in law”, from a psychological point of view, cannot but be unattractive.
Therefore, in addition to the objective components that affect the spread of prison-camp concepts, there are also subjective ones. For example, such as the transfer of the prison-zone vocabulary into the rhetoric of high-ranking officials, the highest political authorities, who strive to speak in a language that is supposedly understandable to citizens - the language of their country.
This tendency also does not contribute to the improvement of the psychological situation, since in this way a prolonged zombification takes place, immersing the consciousness of the majority of the electorate in the zone typology. And also in this way, the authorities willingly or unwittingly give a signal to society that they treat the citizens of their country as the head of the penitentiary system to the convicted person. And in the zone typology, as mentioned above, everything is conceptually simple and a primitive hierarchical setting operates: a godfather is a person endowed with power, executors of powers and a prisoner.
Civilizational progress in developed democratic countries has been trying for several decades to introduce a humanistic tendency in the legal relationship between society and the state. These trends are based on the liberalization of political regimes and criminal law. In recent years, the Russian legislative bodies have been following a different, their own way - by toughening both criminal law and increasingly restricting other rights and freedoms. Legislative repressiveness psychologically extends to the behavioral motivation of citizens who do not feel legislative protection to seek other protection. Therefore, without a general humanization of the consciousness of the entire society - from top to bottom - one cannot expect the eradication of perverted prison conceptual laws.
