Pro vězení je na rozdíl od jiných institucí příznačné, že za svými zdmi shromažduje chovance nedobrovolně. Veškerý čas a aktivity vězňů jsou striktně strukturovány. Autoritě instituce, která za své svěřence přebírá zodpovědnost a tím pádem i možnost sankcionovat nežádoucí chování, jsou podřízeny veškeré aspekty života (některé aspekty, jako je např. rodinný život, jsou pak ze života v lůně totální instituce zcela vyňaty). Odsouzený má pouze omezený manévrovací prostor pro prosazení svých zájmů. Navíc vězení představuje značnou zátěž nejen pro odsouzené, ale klade vysoké nároky také na vězeňský personál, jenž má za úkol starat se o izolaci a převýchovu vězňů., The article concern on the prison system. In the first part are described attitudes of public opinion towards crime and prison system. Not only in the terms of causes of criminal behavior. It also brings an evaluation of particular conditions and facilities which are available or which would be hypothetically available for prisoners in contemporary Czech prison system. The second part brings information about prison from prisoners point of view. It sums up the particular needs and problems resulting from imprisonment. And the third part comes with a c omparison of prisoners and public opinion attitudes on some moral dilemmas of chosen kinds of human behavior., and Michal Veselský.
The Prison Service of the Czech Republic has been collecting e-data about imprisoned persons and presenting particular descriptive statistics in its annual reports since 1996. However, essential underlying information and complex relations analyses are not worked out in depth. The Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention offers particular narrowly focused analysis, but has never prepared a comprehensive description based on Czech prison data and models derived from it. As the country is about to prepare a prison service reform, complex statistical and microeconomic models are required. One of the reasons why advanced modelling could not be conducted was the absence of an appropriately adapted dataset. This article describes the steps from a dataset provided by the Prison Service of the Czech Republic to a fi nal database which allows performing advanced analyses. The aim of this paper is also to describe the properties of the database and to report the total number and structure of cases of imprisonment in the CR between 1996 and 2012., Maria Králová, Laura Fónadová., and Obsahuje bibliografii