The Purpose of 3R (Respire, Remember, Respond) Emotional Intelligence for reducing recidivism project is to improve the social adaptability and resilience of offenders and exoffenders, to promote their reintegration to society, and as a result to reduce recidivism. In this sense, Emotional Intelligence interventions should be given to prisoners who will be released within 6 months.
To complement this measure, a social adaptability survey should be given to offenders within at least 3-6 months of their release.
The project plans to show the importance of the application of Emotional Intelligence tools and strategies for inmates who will be released within 6 months in order to reduce the levels of recidivism. The project will have a double line of intervention, both with inmates and with people who support the inmates in their attempt to reintegrate into society: guards, wardens and social workers, but also NGOs in the off-prison monitoring.
This program is doubled focused. On one hand, it will work with inmates and on the other one people who make up the support systems for inmates in their reintegration in society.
For prisoners it seems desirable to offer a comprehensive program that will help inmates learn how to integrate emotional intelligence practices into their everyday lives, for example, have training sessions focusing on stress handling, self-awareness and self-regulation. In parallel to this program for inmates, another should be offered for people whose role is to support the inmates in their attempt to reintegrate into society.
These include guards, wardens and social workers (in prison monitoring), but also NGO and other kind of organizations (off prison monitoring) taking into account the extreme importance of the follow up in the first months after release.