This publication offers its readers a multifunctional, interdisciplinary tool in the field of foreign language teaching (glottodidactics) and penitentiary science. It joins the elements of thematic knowledge with the English vocabulary, pertaining to the process of execution of custodial punishment by the Prison Service, presentation of the institution of prison and its community, correctional treatment, along with the notion of criminality and selected measures of penal and penitentiary politics.
This book was designed for penitentiary science students and officers of the Polish Prison Service, but it can also be used by the students of English philology, translation studies, criminology or social rehabilitation. It enables the readers to review and consolidate their knowledge, improve their professional and specialised English skills and develop their social and cognitive skills. The publication is closely related to the educational content of the school’s curricula, while at the same time, it increases the knowledge of penitentiary systems and practices in different countries.
The content is divided into sections, which facilitates finding the subject relevant to the reader: information about the organisation of the Prison Service in Poland, its penitentiary units, establishments and their communities, safe and secure functioning of the institutions, selected methods and means of dealing with inmates, processes and negative phenomena characteristic to prisons, then probation and alternatives to imprisonment.
The material included in this book can be analysed in the self-training mode (as a repertory or a handbook) or be incorporated in the teaching process as a guide or a useful tool to support the teacher.