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Motivation of prison Chaplains
Železník, Barbora ; Beneš, Ladislav (advisor) ; Martinek, Michael (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the prison chaplains motivation for their work with prisoners. In the theoretical part is offered a comprehensive summary of the prison service topic in which are described some basic concepts of the punishement functions and personnel the chaplain meets in the prison. It also closely describes the prison chaplain profession, the historical beginnings of this service, the prison chaplains church affiliation, conditions for entering this profession, legislation, chaplain role and activities in the prison. Further the thesis deals with a chapter about the motivation topic, which specifies the assumed chaplains motives for this service. Accordingly with the given thesis goal and the research questions, the motivation of prison chaplains is determined in the practical part, with the help of qualitative research. In the research were involved eight prison different genders chaplains, from different churches, prisons and with different time of experience as a prison chaplain. Data were obtained from respondents using a semi-structured interview and then evaluated through analysis. Keywords prison chaplain, motivation, convicted
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The Existing Practice of Prison Chaplaincy Service
Šindlerová, Lucie ; Beneš, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kocanda, Martin (referee)
The existing practice of prison chaplaincy service. Master's thesis called The Existing Practice of Prison Chaplaincy Service is about purpose and object of prison chaplaincy service from the view of prison chaplains. The theoretical part presents volunteer pastoral care in prison and employee pastoral care in prison including history and object of these both parts. Master's thesis looks into personal character of chaplain, summarizes scope of his employment and different duties in custodial sentence and in sentence of imprisonment. The practical part come out from qualitative elaboration interviews with four chaplains (two were men and two were women) and also with one former user of prison chaplaincy service. The original intention of this master's thesis (purpose and object of prison chaplaincy service from the view of chaplain) has been extended by two new objects (describe personal way of faith and surroundings of prison) pursuant to interview with former user. Results brings different perception of purpose and objects of prison chaplaincy service - hope, change, self-improvement, correction of personal character and self-understanding. The conclusions include chaplains visions of the future of prison chaplaincy service -supervision support, positive medialization, to profile role of chaplain, help for...
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The Existing Practice of Prison Chaplaincy Service
Šindlerová, Lucie ; Beneš, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kocanda, Martin (referee)
The existing practice of prison chaplaincy service. Master's thesis called The Existing Practice of Prison Chaplaincy Service is about purpose and object of prison chaplaincy service from the view of prison chaplains. The theoretical part presents volunteer pastoral care in prison and employee pastoral care in prison including history and object of these both parts. Master's thesis looks into personal character of chaplain, summarizes scope of his employment and different duties in custodial sentence and in sentence of imprisonment. The practical part come out from qualitative elaboration interviews with four chaplains (two were men and two were women) and also with one former user of prison chaplaincy service. The original intention of this master's thesis (purpose and object of prison chaplaincy service from the view of chaplain) has been extended by two new objects (describe personal way of faith and surroundings of prison) pursuant to interview with former user. Results brings different perception of purpose and objects of prison chaplaincy service - hope, change, self-improvement, correction of personal character and self-understanding. The conclusions include chaplains visions of the future of prison chaplaincy service -supervision support, positive medialization, to profile role of chaplain, help for...
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Annunciation of the Gospel salvation in our recent/present prison environment
PŘIBYL, Pavel
The Diploma Thesis deals with the description of the facts and activities related to the proclamation of the Gospel in the prison environment. It refers to the historical development of penitentiary from the prison early days to the present time. It describes the ways to provide spiritual service in recent prison environment, the activities of the associations of Prison Religious Care (PRC) and Prison Religious Service (PRS). It provides the overview of mutual relationships among these orga-nisations and the Prison (Penitentiary) Service of the Czech Republic, and at the same time it gives legal standards regulating the provision of spiritual services on the territory of the Czech Republic. It provides a complete view of activities of a prison chaplain and introduces his competences to the reader. The research section is focused on findings what kinds of the most serious current problems accompanies the process of evangelization in current Czech prison environment and which solutions of existing problems are suggested by involved experts.
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Pastoral Care in Prisons and the Following Spiritual Care for the Released
PEŠEK, Pavel
The thesis deals with the standard of spiritual care provided in prisons and stockades in the Czech Republic, and pastoral care in the St. Peter´s Asylum House in Záblatí. The theoretical part defines concepts of Christianity and pastoral care and it is focused on prisons in the Czech Republic and spiritual care that is provided in there. There is described and explained the concept of spiritual care in prisons. It examines the complicated situations of released prisoners. The practical part includes the research methodology, characteristics of the examined sample and description of research method. Questionnaire investigation was used for gaining information from prison chaplains. Semi-structured inverviews were used for gaining information from respondents. Data processing resulted into the final summary. The aim of the whole thesis is to find out a positive influence of pastoral care on people who found themselves in oppressive life situations.
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