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

“It was the best thing that could have happened to me in my life”: Positive aspects of imprisonment through the eyes of people with prison experience
Jan Tomášek

 

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