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Who is an average life-term prisoner and how does he act in prison? The research results prove that, with time, most respondents not only adapted to prison conditions, but also raised their social and perhaps even moral status.
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Life imprisonment sentence has caused controversies since the beginning of the rene-wed Polish statehood. In criminal law from Moderne Schule perspective this extreme punishment was imposed on dangerous criminals (habitual criminal, gefährliche Gewohnheitsverbrecher) who had to be permanently isolated from the society. In the beginning, life imprisonment in the dual-track system was administered along with post-penal safeguard measures. The author attempts to synthesise the evolution of life imprisonment sentence and presents concerns about it. He implies that the return to wide use of post-penal detention is an especially worrying trend in modern law.
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The article discusses the dissenting opinion in the criminal proceedings and its importance in imposing life imprisonment sentence. The author presents legal provisions governing the conditions for the submission of a dissenting sentence from the perspective of its functions, which are crucial both for the parties to the proceedings and the social impact of judicial decisions. He analyses the standards for administering life imprisonment sentence defined by the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court and the appeals courts. On the example of the decisions of general courts, the author discusses the reasons for life imprisonment sentences, the grounds of judgements in dissenting opinions and their common, converging elements.
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The discussed research is an example of scientific activity based on systematic and persistent gathering and analysis of the information contained in prison records. The research identifies sensitive moments in prisoners’ life: from waiting for the prison sentence (pre-trial detention) to passing the sentence and serving it. The research distinguished and identified groups of dangerous conduct, such as: self-destructive behaviour, physical and mental violence, rape. It also specified difficult moments in the life of the imprisoned: disintegration of family ties (separation, death of family members). The isolation period was divided into shorter time intervals called sequences in order to organize and include time as a variable. Other variables were taken into account in different tables and the gathered data compared over time. The finding sand results of the research are material for further analysis and represent a practical value. By capturing variable interdependencies, it is possible to point to risk factors and the area where they occur, which allows including adequate protective measures in time. The conducted research and its results indicate the need for continuing scientific studies on people serving prison sentences.
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Among prisoners serving life sentence there are some “invisible” ones. They try to keep distance both from the prison administration and the “second life”. They do not show any special interests or talents and do not get involved in anything. Can their life be described as fruitless?
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The text concerns Polish citizens sentenced to life imprisonment in other European countries and extradited to Poland. It analyses their social profiles, committed acts and the execution of the imposed sentence.
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The article discusses the problems reported to the Commissioner for Human Rights by life prisoners, the way in which these cases were handled by the Commissioner and the changes in the situation of this group of prisoners induced by the jurisprudence of the ECHR.
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The study contains a description, analysis and recommendations regarding the risk management model in the Polish penitentiary system, used for life-sentenced prisoners and dangerous convits.
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The right to higher education? The need for achievement and ambitions? Are questions concerning these basic conditions, which enable people to improve and develop themselves, appropriate for prisoners in particular those sentenced to life-term isolation? What is the purpose of their education? By analysing court and prison records, conducting interviews with prison authorities and interpreting the existing law, the author tries to answer these questions. She concludes that other factors than those officially declared by the state authorities determine the rights of life-term prisoners, which is a loss to them, their families and the society.
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There are 14 women serving life sentence in Poland. Each of them copes with life sentence in a different way. The article attempts to find the relation between their life before they committed murder, the crime itself and the sentence they are serving.
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The article shows the potential in legislation, standards of conduct and corrective interventions aimed at long-term prisoners. It also indicates the optimal model of corrective work with life-term prisoners.
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It is difficult to plan serving a life imprisonment sentence. It is easier and more rational to offer a prisoner concrete support such as rehabilitation programmes or interventions, which can help him overcome his own deficiencies, make up for social shortcomings and relations with people, develop personal talents and competences. The process requires building relations to convince the prisoner that the measures proposed by prison authorities – when he is fully contributing to them (on autopilot) – make sense and have a purpose, which are important to him and will take him closer to responsibility and freedom.
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In this chapter, I present a therapeutic system, which is quite unique in terms of serving a prison sentence. The system, especially in the form of a therapeutic ward for convicts with non-psychotic mental disorders or mentally disabled, is the quintessence of the individualization of social rehabilitation interactions. I present a historical outline with the intention of emphasizing the effort which was put in the idea of individualising the prison sentence. I follow the diagnostic process in which the convicts participate, aimed at indicating the most optimal system of serving a sentence for them, with particular emphasis on the procedures related to the therapeutic system. I outline the formulation of an individual therapeutic program for the sentenced, which is the basis for specialist interventions conducted towards him. In conclusion, I attempt to bring the reader closer to the world that is hard to imagine, the world of life-term prisoners, for whom prison becomes home.
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Life imprisonment for crimes that deserve special condemnation is in line with social needs and the populist narrative of politicians with extreme views. It should be remembered, however, that the execution of this most severe punishment is within the competence of the Prison Service and thus burdens officers who have direct contact with this category of inmates. Its effectiveness - understood here as the development of a plan for the optimal functioning of a convict in isolation (in terms of employment, education, organization of free time, participation in readaptation programs etc.), the implementation of which will favour his internal transformation and create conditions enabling him to apply for conditional release - depends, inter alia, on the attitudes and treatment of life prisoners presented by the officers. Attitudes towards other people are shaped, inter alia, through appropriate education, which is why this study attempts to verify the education of prison staff and the attitudes towards prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment represented by Prison Service officers.
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Within the framework of narrative criminology, we invited life-term prisoners to describe their experiences of serving the sentence. Although their stories are different, we point to recurring threads and links to the existing scientific findings.
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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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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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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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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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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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