FPS employees' antimanipulative competence formation in the conception of convicts' subjective-accessory correction
The late 1990s criminality growth among imprisoned convicts, including those sentenced on economical charges, caused a higher number of manipulation acts against penitentiary facilities employees with an aim to involve them in illegal solving of convicts' problems. The studying of factors and conditions favourable to outside-of-duty relationship between penitentiary employees and inmates (two groups were studied: those who started outside-of-duty relationship and those who were loyal to their duty) showed that along with an objective cause (scarce financial support of employees) personal traits are quite important (egocentrism, anxiety and communicative rigidity). The convicts' subjective-accessory correction conception developed on the basis of historiographical and comparative research (V.M. Pozdnyakov, 2000) gave rise to the FPS employees' antimanipulative competence formation training. It was tested among Tula Oblast colony employees who faced a difficult operating environment. Eleven 2-2,5 hour group lessons that included case studies, role-playing games, psycho-technical exercises on self-identity and personality stress resistance development allowed employees to learn manipulation scenarios used by convicts and get experience in constructive resistance to their realization. The psychodiagnostic data showed that after a training 41 % of participants showed less situation anxiety, 54 and 27 % showed less verbal or physical aggression. A favourable training influence not only on risk group employees but on the whole psychological climate of the personnel made these trainings widespread in a number of regional Federal Penitentiary Services in Russia.