VITALLY SIGNIFICANT PROSPECTS FOR FEMALE JUVENILE OFFENDERS (ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF A TEACHER AND A PENITENTIARY SPECIALIST N. A. DEEVA)
in Russia few in number but focused psychological and pedagogical research of juvenile female convicts, serving sentences in juvenile correctional facilities, has begun with the works of O. V. Nerovni, I. P. Bashkatov. A teacher and a penitentiary specialist N. A. Deeva holds a special place in this range. Ryazan educational labor colony was created in 1972, according to the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, where she began to work first as a teacher and later as a director of the evening shift school. Study of life plans substructure, prospects and objectives of female juvenile offenders activity became the purpose of scientific research of N. A. Deeva. Experimental and practical work which took place in a juvenile correctional facility from 1973 to 1981 (as a result a thesis for the degree of Ph.D. of pedagogical sciences was upheld), allowed to determine the content of the social prospects and to develop the technology of formation of socially significant prospects for life among the convicts. N. A. Deeva suggested criteria for assessing the stability of the formation of prospects for female juvenile offenders in the context of a juvenile correctional colony. Professional activity of N. A. Deeva was awarded a diploma of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR. Her research work requires careful reading, and her practical experience in the rehabilitation of the female juvenile convicts deserves close studying. It is especially significant at present as, according to the Concept of development of the penitentiary system of the Russian Federation to 2020, our country holds experiments aimed at transformation of educational colonies for juvenile offenders into educational centers.