The authors aim in the paper to detect and highlight the socio-economic factors that were the basis for the commission of crimes by detainees in penitentiaries in the Republic of Moldova. It was found that most the convicted people are illiterate, and with unifinished primary and secondary education about 60% the unemployed is another imposing in the category of social status about 77% for recidivism are convicted in prisons about 58,1% of people.
