Więzienie to nie miejsce, ale stan umysłu
Prison is not a place but a state of mind

Author(s): Janusz Kulmatycki
Subject(s): Criminal Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: life imprisonment sentence; prison; prisoners; prison service; diagnosis; personality disorder; rehabilitation; right to hope
Summary/Abstract: The publication presents the latest, unique and complex results of the research on the group of 290 life-term prisoners. It summarises the five-year study on life imprisonment sentence and explores the problem from the legal, criminological and psychological perspective, giving voice to leading experts and practitioners: lawyers, psychologists, prison officers and finally the sentenced themselves. The main aim of the monograph was to answer the question what a typical life-term prisoner is (a statistical image of a sentenced) and if in the group of the 290 studied there are those best and worst and what determines it. With reference to appropriate theories, such as deprivation, import, rational choice, the authors of the texts collected here describe how the sentenced adapt to the conditions of lifetime isolation and how the prison systems adapts to them, how both sides respond to passing and executing life imprisonment sentence and how they view the diagnosis and the possibility of interacting with the sentenced in prison. It is a true compendium of criminological and psychological knowledge of the perpetrator–sentenced–human.

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