Praca jako środek resocjalizacji nieletnich w historycznych i współczesnych instytucjach poprawczych
Work as a Means of Rehabilitation of Juveniles in Old and Modern Juvenile Detention Centers

Summary/Abstract: The article includes theoretical reflections on the importance of work as one of the methods of rehabilitation of juveniles placed in juvenile detention centers throughout the history. At the beginning the author paid attention to the legislative changes and the related evolution in the treatment of juvenile offenders in countries recognized as pioneers in the rehabilitation thought and practice. The issues regarding alleviating juvenile policy (such as advocated dejuridisation and decriminalization while dealing with perpetrators of minor punishable acts), as well as the necessity to tighten sanctions against persons committing serious crimes were mentioned herein as well. The central part of the paper is an analysis of the functioning of various foreign and Polish juvenile correctional institutions from the evolutionary perspective, in which work was used as a key method of rehabilitation. At first the author concentrated on the characteristics of foreign institutions organized as part of historical social rehabilitation systems (the progressive and the family system, and the system of children’s republics and villages). Subsequently, the author drew attention to the functioning of Polish correctional facilities and rehabilitation institutions, in which work performed by juveniles was an important contribution to their development and translated into the educational success observed both in the individual and social dimension. The final parts of the article describe contemporary solutions applied by correctional institutions, in which juveniles take advantage of the constantly widening range and offer of vocational education, acquire necessary competences and qualifications, and are thus becoming increasingly competitive on the labour market.

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