Full Description
This book is the result of research conducted in Polish post-criminal isolation units related to the accessibility of religious practices and services for people incarcerated there. The study covered individuals from 35 units, including prisoners from 15 penitentiary facilities and 4 detention centres, as well as juveniles from 8 youth educational centres and 8 correctional facilities. The research also involved educators from those units who presented the religious life of convicts and detainees from their own perspective. The empirical part was preceded by considerations on the social and individual significance of religion and an outline of international and national (Polish and German) standards of religious freedom, including in post-criminal isolation units.
Contents
Social and individual significance of religion - Religious freedom of adults and children: a reconstruction of international and Polish standards - Religious freedom of adults and children deprived of their liberty in post- criminal isolation units: international standards - Religious freedom of adults and children deprived of their liberty in post- criminal isolation units: Polish standards - Religious freedom of adults and children deprived of liberty in post- criminal isolation centres in the Federal Republic of Germany - Exercise of religious freedom in penitentiary facilities, correctional facilities and youth educational centres: results of a survey
