Consciousness refers to the reflection of human mind on the objective material world, which is the sum of feelings and thinking. At present, with the promotion of the openness of prison affairs, some criminals have misjudged the situation, and there have been so-called "three changes" (that is, the consciousness of repentance is weakened, the consciousness of serving a sentence is weakened, and the consciousness of rights is alienated) and "four things rebound" (that is, the consciousness of anti-reform, fake reform, hedonism and speculative reform rebounds). This not only endangers the safety and stability of the supervision place, but also hinders the reform of most prisoners. In view of the above situation, it is very important to educate criminals on "the consciousness of being punished". Its purpose is to educate criminals on their rights and obligations under the guidance of the correct concept of execution; Make them feel guilty about society, shame about crime, guilt about crime and awe of law, so as to establish criminals' correct sense of serving their sentences and push their ideological reform education to a new level.

When educating criminals about punishment, we should grasp the following three points:

First of all, we should educate criminals to recognize their social roles. In recent years, in prison management, various civilized management such as police law enforcement civilization and law enforcement norms have been comprehensively implemented, and various civilized measures such as openness of prison affairs and openness and fairness of commutation and parole system have been taken. However, in this case, there is a phenomenon of "three changes" in the sentence served by criminals. In the educational reform of criminals, the prison people's police are faced with such confusion: the police are more and more civilized in law enforcement, but the criminals who contradict the police are on the rise; Prisons continue to deepen the openness of prison affairs, and the law enforcement is more transparent and standardized, but the number of criminals who do not obey management has increased; The current commutation and parole system is more open and fair, but the dissatisfaction of criminals is becoming more and more common; Prisons pay more and more attention to the protection of criminals' rights, but criminals are becoming more and more difficult to manage. In practical work, criminals often vent their dissatisfaction, have conflicts with the police and disobey discipline. These criminals demand too much of their own rights, but the corresponding obligations are emphasized and seldom taken out of context, which is unreasonable. Instead of acquiring rights through obligations, we skip obligations to talk about rights, and our awareness of rights expands viciously, forgetting that we are "criminals". In the usual life transformation, only the enjoyment of rights is emphasized, but the due obligations are not fulfilled. Even some criminals, after applying for commutation and parole, put their promises to the police and accomplices behind them at the later review meeting, and the reform declined obviously, and their sense of status and reform was weak, showing negative thoughts in their usual reform work. Fundamentally speaking, such people do not plead guilty, refuse to accept the sentence, and are not at ease to accept reform. Psychologically speaking, it is to resist the recognition of the criminal's social role, so that he can't smoothly put himself into reforming his life.

In view of the above situation, the prison people's police should seriously study the prison law and related policies, and carry out patient and meticulous ideological education for criminals in the way of "convincing people with reason and moving people with emotion" to make them realize that "mental calcium deficiency" is the premise of their crimes, and improper material desire expansion is the basic root of their crimes. As a criminal who is undergoing criminal reform, only by recognizing the situation, facing the reality, firmly recognizing his social status, and recognizing who he is, where he is and what he is doing here. Let criminals understand these truths, which will raise their ideological understanding to a higher level. It is a spiral rise, and it is a "negation of negation".

Second, we should educate criminals to admit their social environment. In the process of reform, some criminals are not only cynical in thought, but also lazy and poorly standardized. Such people generally ignore the transformation of identity, have a weak sense of transformation, ignore the obligation of transformation, and simply pursue individual rights. The education and reform of such criminals is mainly to educate them to understand that their social environment is the place where criminal law is executed-prison. In prison, some words and deeds of criminals and even all aspects of daily life are bound by the Code of Conduct for Criminals and the Measures for the Assessment of Criminals' Rewards and Punishment. Put the standardized management and behavior training of criminals in the first place, be strict with yourself, be meticulous and practical. Make them have an accurate positioning of their own identity and a correct understanding of the restrictions on words and deeds required by the prison environment, so that they can psychologically shorten the process of adapting to the prison environment as soon as possible. We must sincerely acknowledge and agree with the supervision environment of iron gates, iron bars, high-wall power grids and armed guards, otherwise we can't plead guilty well, let alone reform ourselves better.

Thirdly, we should educate criminals to admit their social responsibilities. What is responsibility? Responsibility is essentially doing what you should do consciously, which emphasizes a kind of conscious consciousness. Prison is the executive organ of criminal law to manage and reform criminals. In the reform of criminals, it is very important to strengthen the responsibility consciousness education of criminals and enhance their sense of social responsibility. During the reform of criminals, the state provided a good environment and conditions for the reform, and all sectors of society also extended a helping hand to enthusiastically educate and help criminals; The prison policemen took pains to carry out patient and meticulous education and selfless care from their families. And urge them to recognize their crimes, and then transform and repay the society with peace of mind. This is a responsibility. At the same time, let every criminal realize what is the purpose of putting criminals in prison? It goes without saying that it is also a social responsibility for criminals to dig deep into the root causes of crimes and correct bad habits in a special environment that restricts personal freedom and is relatively closed. But this kind of social responsibility must be recognized by criminals, which is more valuable and meaningful. An irresponsible person is not a moral person; It is difficult for a person without morality to have a law-abiding mind. The most important thing to educate criminals in repentance, repentance and atonement is to emphasize their responsibilities, awaken their conscience of responsibility and find what they lack.