Title: The attitudes of prisoners regarding to physical activities and sports.
Abstract: IntroductionThe views people have about a social event - function reflects the subjective representation of themselves as ideological or experiential attitude that have the specified objective social fact (Papastamou & Mantoglou, 1995). Especially when looking for opinions relating to social functions are necessary and have an objective application of human existence, such as physical activities and their impact on quality of life. If we define the representations for a fact - function as attitude that reflect an idealized representation of the actual event, then they change, transform and differentiate according to some factors (Koskinas, Papastamou, Mantoglou, Prodromitis & Alexias, 2000).Also perceptions may be affected due to the social origin of the people, as that distinction because of the social and geographical stratification differentiates perceived representations of social functions (Bourdieu, 2002). The quality of life variables with fixed biological parameters, but also the mental and emotional effects that create the social environment may be regarded as objective fact when people experience and act without pathological aberrations (World Health Organization [WHO], 2010). Different studies have found links between health and activity, some as a result of the personal fitness and some about from the act of physical exercise and sport (Dunn, Trivedi & O'Neal, 2001).In Nettleton main characteristics of quality of life is the environment, housing, leisure, education, health system, entertainment and social interaction (Nettleton, 2002). The physical activities is a basic social function that ensures the biological active participants improve with reflection on the entertainment field. Active participation in physical activities with scope for diversity and sport applications requires space and time. The limitation of time and space specific facilities and instruments for applications of physical activities generate differential effects on socially disadvantaged groups of people resulting in a negative impact on quality of life (McNamee, 2007; National Council for Curriculum and Assessment [NCCA], 2007). People in detention (prison), such as social delinquents are forced to experience daily spatiotemporal restriction even necessary functions such as physical activity movement, given the conditions of detention did not allow it. This lack of physical activity in the places of detention could be reversed if the infrastructure formed in the ratio of human needs, one of which is access to physical activity (Gonzalez-Castro, et al.,Moreover, prisons partly exists an unequal operation between inclusions in court - closed and open - rural prisons, with the latter having multiple possibilities in physical activities such as physical activities due to work or spaces for exercise - exercise (Wielgus, Nowicki & Borek, 2013).Different studies, epidemiological, clinical and pathological supporting that physical activities and some sports plays has an important role in the prevention and rehabilitation of several diseases (Haskell et al., 2007). Is known that physical activities and sports were prohibited for prison inmates, because they were imprisoned for punishment and not for recreation (Roberts & Hough, 2005).We know that «... .physical activity and sports for inmates started in the year 1973, when the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals recommended that every prison should employ a physical education teacher with specialization in recreation or a graduated in recreation management. Since then many prisons incorporated physical activities and sports as part of the education system of offenders according to their rights>> (Konstantinakos et al., 2010). Is very important the decision of council of Europe to established the guidelines in the providing physical activities for prisons, when this success in North American was mies were adopted by the prisonal system, (Delaney & Madigan, 2009). …
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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