The manual is prepared on the basis of the results of the dissertation study on the topic “Social and psychological prevention of suicide in defendants with low level of resistance , Incarcerated in jail" , carried out in 2018 by a graduate student of the Russian State Social University Mamchenko Alexey Mikhailovich under the scientific supervision of a doctor of psychological sciences , Associate Professor , Professor of Social Sciences , General and Clinical Psychology of the Russian State University , the leading researcher of the Federal Research Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Tsvetkova Nadezhda Alexandrovna . The manual presents a theoretically and empirically substantiated model of socio-psychological prevention of suicides among defendants with a low level of resilience, imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center .. The manual is intended for psychologists of the structures of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, as well as for students studying in the specialties "Legal Psychology" and "Psychology of Performance" .