Okładka książki, na której przez zakratowane okno do wnętrza ciemnej celi przebija się światło.„Interdisciplinary About Prison” is the latest monograph edited by Dr Jan Dezyderiusz Pol OFM.

The collective work was published by Episteme and the Academy of Justice in the framework of the project "Pilot penitentiary complexes" carried out under the Operational Program called "Justice" financed by Norwegian funds and national resources.

"This publication, which is multidisciplinary, is aimed at a broad audience. Prison as a territory, space, building and, above all, as a place for isolating people deprived of liberty, is an area with extremely impressive interconnectedness. The book is dedicated to rehabilitation practitioners, educators, sociologists and employees and officers of the prison Service. Perhaps the probation officers, social workers or historians will reach for it. Of course, the addressees of the publication may also be students of pedagogy, sociology, psychology and law, as well as those who are interested in penitentiary issues."

Table of content

Introduction  7

Jan Dezyderiusz Pol OFM, PhD
Prison and penitentiary science – /non/ obvious relations 11

Małgorzata Kuć PhD
Measures of penitentiary rehabilitation under penal law 25

Bartosz Kułan PhD
The prison building as a punishment place in the historical research perspective 61

Mariusz Paweł Kuryłowicz PhD
Protecting the public against the perpetrators of crime – Correctional facility as a place of isolation 87

Kamil Miszewski PhD
Fighting and cooperation. On mutual relations between officers and sentenced persons 101

Roman Pomianowski, Agnieszka Nowogrodzka

Learned helplessness – a psychological barrier to social rehabilitation?123

Prof. Bishop Janusz Mastalski
Barriers and opportunities to resocialise prisoners in the context of their religion. Pedagogical perspective 145

Rev. Prof. Wiesław Przygoda
The importance of the prison in terms of Catholic theology 169

prof. AWS, dr hab.  Krzysztof Andrzej Wojcieszek
Prison as a school of freedom? 195

prof. UKSW Tadeusz Kamiński PhD
A social politician is looking at a prison 217

The multi-threaded idea of this publication in principle meant that the authors invited to this publishing prepared various articles focused on prison as a place associated with the penalty, opportunity, transformation, social security, prison Service, and even a characteristic structure. It is also the area that brings together the representatives of various scientific disciplines. Each author, using their own scientific experience, looked at the prison precisely as if it were through a magnifying glass or prism that combines colourful threads.

Written by: The Academy of Justice PR team

Translated by: Łukasz Włodarczyk