The necessity for the scientific research on subcultural processes in the prisons of the Republic of Moldova

This article is an argument for initiating scientific studies on subcultural processes in penitentiaries of the Republic of Moldova, processes that play a key role in shaping penitentiary crime, but which are not sufficiently well reflected in official studies and statistics. The lack of control tools on the dissemination of criminal subculture in the detention environment but also its negative influence on the effect of resocialization actions, order and stability in the prison environment, as well as other important aspects of detention, determine the study of subcultural processes to be extremely current and necessary. The facilities created by the legislator for detainees in order to release them without full execution of the sentence, in order to stop overcrowding in prisons and to avoid losing cases to the ECHR, determined the release of a massive influx of convicts from detention, which makes the study of the subculture even more current, there being a risk of its exportation out of prison.