Resocialization is the process through which individuals belonging to a society or culture learn and internalize a repertoire of norms, values and ways of perceiving reality, which give them the necessary capacities to perform satisfactorily in social interaction; even beyond this, since intellectual and emotional skills are acquired through interactive activities.
The process of resocialization, which we conceptualized as acceptance or taking of awareness of the social structure in which an individual is born, is feasible thanks to social agents, which are representative institutions and individuals with the ability to transmit and impose elements culturally appropriate. The most representative social agents are the family and the school.
Those who were convicted of a crime and deprived of their liberty as punishment must go through several stages of re-socialization to be included again in the system.
It is assumed, in this way, that the permanence of an individual in a prison is part of a process of re-socialization. In the first instance, the convicted person is punished and eliminated from society. Some time later, however, he will have to reintegrate. Those in charge of the penitentiary, therefore, must carry out a series of functions that include psychological assistance and training so that the inmate, upon regaining freedom, can develop and no longer become a dangerous component of society.
A process that involves finding a new job, establishing new habits, strengthening friendships, and making contact with old ties. In short, it is about establishing a life routine with which the human being rejoins society and puts into practice his right to fight for his happiness.
When a person has been successfully reinserted, their past is no longer important since they are someone capable of developing their potential to do good. This re-socialization is not always easy as the person who has been in prison for some time may also experience some social rejection as a result of the prejudice.
Resocialization is a humanistic principle that starts from the unconditional trust of the human being to the extent that beyond the actions that a person has committed in his life, the human being as a free and conscious being has the ability to change his opinion, assume your mistakes and go back to being a new person.
