https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.1.09
The article deals with the problem of perception of time by incarcerated people. Every convict, regardless of whether he or she is imprisoned for the first time or is a repeater, perceives the present time negatively, as a fatalistic time because the imprisonment deprives them ofthe possibility to decide for themselves. People burdened with difficult life experiences may focus on the past, seeing it as the "cause" of their unhappy fate. On the other hand, people whose life before imprisonment was rather full of positive experiences may live in memories cutting themselves off emotionally from the prison reality. When working with convicted persons, it is extremely important to direct their thinking towards goals and tasks that they will carry out in the future, after serving their sentence. The research on time perception was conducted with 80 women (50 first time offenders and 30 recidivists) and 60 men (30 first time offenders and 30 recidivists). The research was conducted using the Philip Zimbardo Time Perception Questionnaire. Statistical analysis of the obtained results was carried out using the SPSS statistical package.
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