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Specifics of Social Work in Prisons
LAURENČÍKOVÁ, Štěpánka
The Czech Republic strruggles with a higher rate of recidivism than desirable. While the number of convicts in prisons is declining, so is the number of staff. Social work plays a vital role in supporting convicts towards resocialization and reintegration. This thesis on the topic of Specifics od Social Work in Prison focuses on the current situation in the context of the number of convicts and the state's criminal policy setting. Additionally, the thesis discusses factors that can influence delinquent and criminal behavior. Crime prevention is part focuses on the role od social work in prison, penitentiary and post-penitentiary care, and the use of treatment programs. Two goals were chosen for the practical part of this work: to find out how social work is implemented in prisons from the perspective of social workers and to find out in selected prisons what procedures, methods and techniques a social worker uses within treatment programs with assigned individuals. The research was carried out using a qualitative research stratégy, where open coding created codes that were further processed in the ATLAS.ti software program. This program was also used to schematically illustrate the results. The conducted interviews were analyzed, and through the interpretation of the collected data, it was discovered what are the specifics of providing support from social workers in relation to prisoners and what approaches, methods and techniques social worker use through individually set treatments programs. The results also highlight the challenges, limits and barriers associated with providing effective interventions. The contribution of this work is a deeper insight into social work in prisons from the perspective of social workers and also getting acquainted with the challenges, limits and barriers that may disrupt the provision of effective interventions.
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The possibilities of social reintegration of drug addicts
MÍKOVÁ, Veronika
The bachelor thesis deals with the social rehabilitation of drug addicts, so it maps the addictology services available in the Czech Republic for addictive substance addicts. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the definition of addiction, its impacts on society and possible ways of solving this global problem. There is also mapped the area of addictological services in detention prisons and prisons of the Czech Republic. The survey was carried out through e-mail correspondence with individual prisons and one visit to the directly specialized departments of Jirice Prison. Practical part of the thesis verifies the information in the form of interviews in four cases, ie qualitative research. Respondents providing information for this work have undergone at least one of these treatments, and not only by abstinence and by changing their attitudes to life, they show that treating addicts makes sense.
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Sentence od Life Imprisonment
PEČENKOVÁ, Kateřina
Life imprisonment presents the most severe penalty that can be imposed according to the Czech legislation. It belongs to the system of capital punishments and the extreme severity of its imposition is subject to the legislator himself. In the Czech Republic, the imposition of life imprisonment is a unique phenomenon. A meticulous attention should be thereby paid to its legislation, which is exceptionally complex in the Czech Republic. It is equally important to provide persons who are serving the term of life imprisonment with social services, aid and a social worker, who plays one of the most important roles in the life of the convicted. The social worker enables the convicted to communicate with the social environment outside the penitentiary, to communicate with public administration bodies and, in addition, he provides the convicted with follow-up social services after his/her release or while serving the term. These services aim at the quality improvement of the life of the convicted. This bachelor thesis presents a document that may serve future social workers in the prison service as a supplementary material to their studies and work. It includes the overview of important information that the specific social worker should know and subsequently develop. This thesis encompasses the legislation of both - life imprisonment and social work and associated rights and duties. Moreover, this thesis defines specific terms that the social worker should know and understand - the treatment of prisoners and treatment programmes in particular. The thesis followed the method of document analysis, the analysis of laws, judicature, scholarly journals and books. It synthetises pieces of information that are necessary for a social worker to know and understand. The legislation of life imprisonment is carefully drafted in the Czech Republic, which tremendously helped me with dealing with related laws and regulations. 7 On the other hand, what surprised me was a lack of documents related to the legislation governing the social work in the prison service. In my opinion, this lack of documents in the designated area needs to be completed.
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Unconditional imprisonment
Tomíčková, Kristína ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe the execution of unconditional imprisonment in the Czech republic and to analyze the actual problems of the Czech penitentiary system. It also tries to propose convenient solutions of the main problems. The extend of this thesis is reduced to the execution of penalty, therefor other forms of detention are excluded. The unconditional imprisonment is the strictest penalty in Czech legal system and it has a major impact on the convicted human beings. That is why I tried do describe how the actual penitentiary system works and what are its weak points. This thesis also tries to compare the ideas of global modern reforms, like humanization and therapeutical concept of punishment, to the real situation of Czech imprisonment. This thesis consists of eight chapters, each of them deals with various aspects of this form of punishment. The first chapter is devoted to theoretical issues of the concept and purpose of the punishment. This part is necessary and desirable for later interpretation of imprisonment problematic. The second chapter describes the legal fundaments of unconditional imprisonment according to international law and its impact on practice. The third chapter describes the legal fundaments of unconditional imprisonment according to Czech national law. It...
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Current issues of post-penitentiary care
Prixová, Veronika ; Vanduchová, Marie (advisor) ; Jelínek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with the current legal regulation of post-penitentiary treatment. It is divided into six thematic areas. The opening chapter defines the concept of penitentiary and post-penitentiary treatment and the concept of resocialization. The second chapter contains an analysis of the legal arrangements for penitentiary treatment, including UN and Council of Europe activities in this area. Attention is also paid to a new way of differentiating sentenced prisoners. Description of the legislation of the treatment programs, including an enumeration of their standardized forms follows. The individual activities of the treatment programs are treated with an emphasis on work and educational activities. The last subchapter deals with the description of the release from imprisonment. The focus of the work lies in the third and fourth chapter dealing with post- penitentiary care and problems of released prisoners. The first sub-chapter focuses on the development of care for the released prisoners on the Czech territory from the collapse of Austro-Hungarian Empire to the present. The second subchapter analyzes the current form of providing post-penitentiary treatment in the form of social services and assistance in material need. The structure of providers, including a detailed analysis of the...
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Role of teaching assistants in the education of convicts with disabilities
Podskalská, Martina ; Bajcura, Lubomír (advisor) ; Šotolová, Eva (referee)
The purpose of this diploma work is to evaluate the work of teaching assistants in supporting the study of convicts with disabilities in the Vocational School in Vinařice Prison. The partial aim of this diploma work is to determine whether the teaching assistants are providing enough support to pupils with disabilities in the level of support that will lead to better learning results and also would enable students to succeed at the open labor market. Diploma work will be divided into the theoretical part and the practical part. The practical part will be elaborated by quantitative and qualitative research methods. Quantitative research will be conducted through a questionnaire, which will be focused on support which is provided by teaching assistants while working with students with disabilities and then on the perception on teaching assistants support that is provided to students with disabilities. Qualitative research will include case studies of pupils - convicts with disabilities in the Vocational School Vinařice. KEYWORDS Convicted, treatment programs, specialized department, secondary vocational school, special education center, teaching assistant, disability, mental disability, education
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Social work as part socialization during imprisonment
Mouleová, Žaneta ; Nová, Monika (advisor) ; Stretti, Sylvie (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on tackling the issue of in-prison rehabilitation and some related factors. The diploma thesis focuses particularly on the specific problems with social rehabilitation during imprisonment and the related programmes. The thesis gives an overview of social rehabilitation and social work. Close attention is paid to social rehabilitation, treatment programmes and social work. Theoretical knowledge is applied in practical use - a questionnaire survey from Plzeň Prison. The survey results show prisoners' opinions on social rehabilitation and treatment programmes.
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Resocialization function of imprisonment and its efficiency
Škarýdová, Anna ; Hejzlarová, Eva (advisor) ; Cejp, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the problematic of re-socialization function of imprisonment in the Czech Republic. First, discusses the development of understanding of the purpose of punishment, describes current theories about its potential function, defines the legislation that sets out the purpose of imprisonment and introduces the public's attitude towards this issue. It also discusses the negative aspects that complicate attempts to remedy convicted as imprisonment process and possible stigmatization and the activity called treatment programs, for whose assistance is re-socialization function imprisonment realized. The next chapter then focuses on ways to measure the effectiveness of the remedy of prisoners, the discussion and their predictive value and frequency. The last part presents the realized survey, which is based on interviews with different people in the triangulation to capture different views of individual participants and prisons in the issue of performance re-socialization function imprisonment.
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Educational components of imprisonment
MERTLOVÁ, Michaela
Thesis deals with the process correcting the prisoners. Firstly, the readers are given the brief information of the present-day prison system. The thesis also characterises various educational functional components of the punishment including the resocialization, rehabilitation, re-education and many others. The correcting process also focuses on some specific groups of the imprisoned as well as the standardized treatment programs, which are common in present-day prison practise. According to the conception of the Czech imprisonment, which also contributes to the current status of the prison system, the importance and aims are described in detail.
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Possibilities of using leisure time by convicts while on duty in prison
KOHOUT, Petr
The work deals with the possibilities of using leisuer time in prison. Leisure time is filled with acitivities wich are based on treatment programs and are specific to imprisonment. Part of the work describes the areas wich are divided in individual specific acitivities in prison. Leisure time activities are drawn from work areas as well as educational, interest and hobby. The work is of theoretical character filled with conversations and interviews with every individual prisoner. The interviews do not serve as investigational reaserch, but tries to focus on quality of leisure time use by prisoners. From the conversations and interviews it seems that the Pilsen prisoners are satisfied with the offered acitivities they have in prison.
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