Retrospective analysis of the problem of introducing convicts to the values of art

The problem of socialization of the individual in the contradictory conditions of the country is one of the most urgent for modern Russia. The socio-cultural crisis has affected all the main spheres of our existence, led to the loss of many values, and affected the spiritual and moral sphere. In these conditions, it is important to know which deep regulators, that is, the motives of human actions – goals, traditions, emotions, needs and values drive the behavior of the individual. It seems to us that the active introduction of convicts to various types of art in the correctional and educational process will help to form positive value orientations of offenders, will contribute to their more successful moral correction. Meanwhile, the analysis of penitentiary practice reveals contradictions between the spiritual and moral potential of art and its lack of demand in the correctional process of penitentiary institutions, the presence of rich experience in moral and aesthetic education of the individual and the lack of technology for its implementation in places of deprivation of liberty, the insufficiency of modern professional training of specialists for the penal system. Therefore, problems related to the study, identification, description and understanding of general and specific ways, adequate methodological techniques that contribute to the formation of moral value orientations of convicts by means of art are relevant for science and practice. Works of art are not mechanically transformed into human actions, but undergo rethinking and selection in his moral experience, filling it with socially valuable content, contribute to the versatile development of personality, develop an aesthetic attitude to reality. A retrospective analysis of the introduction of convicts to the values of art will contribute to search new ways to correct the personality based on the principles of humanism and democracy.