CURRENT ISSUE - 1-2/2024
SPECIAL ISSUE – CZECH PRISON SYSTEM, NONPROFIT SECTOR, CIVIC ACTIVISM
EDITORIAL
“Czech prison system, nonprofit sector, civic activism”
Václav Walach
STUDIES
Inmates’ code in a contemporary Czech prison
Jan Drahoňovský, Zdeněk Chudoba
ESSAYS
Preface to the section on the role of NGOs in the Czech prison system
Anna Šabatová
Nonprofit organizations in prisons: through dialogue between the Prison Service and the civil sector to the rehabilitation of convicts
Tereza Dleštíková
On the establishment, activities and vision of the Czech Association of Organizations Working in Penal Affaires
Barbora Kiliesová
Development of restorative justice in Czech prisons: Report on the activities of the Institute for Restorative Justice
Lea Vaňkátová, Tereza Řeháková, Petra Masopust Šachová
Art behind bars: How the Institute of Unfreedom is changing the view of prison
Adam Martinec
Housing First – preventing homelessness in persons leaving prison
Gabriela Hendlová
Our voice matters: Using lived experience in criminal justice and prisons
Jana Smiggels Kavková, Marek Demner
INTERVIEWS
Shadd Maruna: “Desistence is like an old friend I’ve known for thirty years”
Martina Novopacká, Petr Kupka, Václav Walach
Johannes Feest, Sebastian Scheerer: “Prison is an obsolete institution and should be abolished”
Václav Walach
REPORTS
Report on the public debate Culture and Prison, 6 November 2024, Plzeň, Czechia
Václav Walach
REVIEW ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
Review essay of Tomášek, J. (2024): The magic of desistance: how offenders are reformed in Bohemia. Prague: Wolters Kluwer
Václav Walach
Review essay of Kaepernick, C. (Ed.) (2023): Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons. Reprint edition. Chicago: Haymarket Books & Kaepernick Publishing
Václav Walach
Review of Dirga, L., & Kubín, T. (2023): Prisoner on the Run. Prague: Academia
Jan Tomášek
Review of O’Brien, P. & Willison, J. S. (2022): Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice and the Carceral State. New York: Oxford University Press
Jarda Michl
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Anna Di Ronco, Nigel South: “Green criminology: critical, interdisciplinary and welcoming to newcomers”
Václav Walach, Petr Kupka
Eric Madfis: “Focus on what can really help: create a positive school climate, build systems of supports, promote information transfer”
Václav Walach, Petr Kupka
Alexei Anisin: “School mass shootings in Central and Eastern Europe are on the rise”
Václav Walach, Petr Kupka
Technological security measures are not enough, universities need to develop relationships of care and trust
Václav Walach, Petr Kupka