The prison chaplain as a part of penitentiary care? Transformation of the Czech prison system after the fall of communism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://ak.inp.pan.pl/index.php/ak/article/view/1923" target="_blank" >http://ak.inp.pan.pl/index.php/ak/article/view/1923</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7420/AK2020E" target="_blank" >10.7420/AK2020E</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The prison chaplain as a part of penitentiary care? Transformation of the Czech prison system after the fall of communism

Original language description

The prison system in the Czech Republic has been carrying out a reform process since the end of the communist regime, and has gone through more than 30 years of transformation, based on an effort to make it a modern European correctional system. Part of this change is the transformation of pastoral care, which is presented as one of the key pillars of penitentiary (and also post-penitentiary) care in the Czech Republic. This text is focused on the historically changing role of prison chaplains in the process of release preparation and rehabilitation of inmates in post-communist Czech prisons. Our aim is to compare official declarations, which are reproduced in written documents, with everyday practice from the perspectives of three different groups within the prison environment. This study is based on ethnographic research conducted in Czech prisons for men. The data corpus includes qualitative interviews with selected actors of the prison world (prison chaplains, inmates, and representatives of prison management), material gathered through observations inside prisons, and an analysis of the documentation on the Czech penitentiary system. We have found that although prison chaplains have become an integral part of the Czech prison world, their position is still specific in comparison with the rest of prison staff. In our study, we will focus on the historical evolution of the position of prison chaplains within the organisational structure of prisons, the nature of their work with inmates, and interactions with other prison actors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000390" target="_blank" >TL02000390: Professional training of prison chaplains in the context of prison</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archiwum Kryminologii

ISSN

0066-6890

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

253-269

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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