EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPORT ACTIVITY AND PRISONS

DAVIDE DI PALMA, ANTONIO ASCIONE, PATRIZIA BELFIORE, DOMENICO TAFURI

Department of Sport Sciences and Wellness, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy

The purpose of this research work is to highlight the contribution that sport can provide for recovery in prison and therefore for educational interventions for prisoners, who today are considered to be weak points in the Italian social system. There are, of course, some basic social and cultural criticalities to be overcome in order to establish an educational conception of sport that leads to the pro- motion of the values of physical activity. The paper aims to promote the educational importance of sport as a function of the social life of any individual, considering both the physical and the pedagogical point of view.