Prison system of German-speaking countries 3401-FAKB-JDLd
The goal of the subject is to present a correctional treatment system in German-speaking countries from the legislative, organizational and implementation point of view, including:
• legal basis for prison system
• objectives, principles, organization and methods of influence on inmates,
• German prison system,
• Swiss prison system,
• prison system in Austria,
• solution in Liechtenstein,
• organizational and practical differences of imprisonment between German-speaking countries,
• specifics of federalism for the form of prison system,
• penal institutions in German-speaking countries and the Polish prison system.
The introductory part will be presented basic information on the specifics of the prison system in German-speaking countries. Then will be discussed legal basis, objectives, principles, methods for correctional treatment in various countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein). The final part is devoted to the presentation of the similarities and differences of these solutions with those used in Poland.
Group work will be introduced as well as multimedia and information technology usage development including the ability of creating multimedia presentations. During the process of looking for information about solutions in German-speaking countries, German language skills will be developed.
Estimated number of hours that students should devote to achieve desired effects of learning
seminar - 30 hours
self study work – 35 hours
preparations for exams - 35 hours
TOTAL approx.- 100 hours
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Having finished the process of learning, based on accumulated knowledge, a student:
• descries assumptions and practical organizational forms of penal institutions in German-speaking countries,
• explains connections between prison system in German-speaking countries and Polish legal and correctional notion,
• describes functioning mechanisms of contemporary German-speaking institutional solutions from the Polish and European point of view,
• recognizes weak and strong aspects of activity of German-speaking penal closed institutions in the field of social reintegration
Skills
Having finished the process of learning, a student has the following skills:
• correctly assesses the solutions in penal institutions of German-speaking countries with the goals of correctional education and social reintegration of inmates,
• defines aspects of solutions in German-speaking prison systems in the field of correctional treatment and social prevention that are prone to further evolution,
• interprets different German-speaking legal solutions from the point of view of their correctional usefulness,
• prepares summaries and presentations based on German language sources.
Personal and social competences
Having finished the process of learning, a student has the following personal and social competences:
• follows the ethical rules of correctional stuff and in Polish, European and Global law,
• verifies activities of Polish correctional institutions from European, especially German-speaking countries point of View,
• is aware of the need to change the system of correctional, welfare and aiding solutions.
Assessment criteria
Grading in oral form
Knowledge
• oral exam
• level of acquiring study material to be prepared by students for each lecture
Skills
• oral exam
• multimedia Presentation / Abstract
• being active during the classes
Social competences
• oral exam
• multimedia Presentation/ Abstract
• being active during the classes
Bibliography
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2. Dünkel F., Kestermann C., Zolondek J. (red.) Internationale Studie zum Frauenstrafvollzug. Bestandsaufnahme, Bedarfsanalyse und "best practice". University Greifswald, Dep. Of Criminology, 2005
3. Gesetz über den Vollzug der Freiheitsstrafe, der Jugendstrafe und der Sicherungsverwahrung (Bayerisches Strafvollzugsgesetz–BayStVollzG) vom 10.Dezember 2007, GVBl 2007, S. 866.
4. Kusztal J. System resocjalizacji młodzieży niedostosowanej społecznie w Polsce i w Niemczech, Wyd. WAM, Kraków 2009
5. Schmidt Dariusz, Innowacyjne projekty w szwajcarskim systemie wykonywania kar i środków karnych, w: Jezierska Barbara, Rejzner Andrzej, Szczepaniak Paweł, Szecówka Adam (red.) Profilaktyka społeczna i resocjalizacja w nurtach inkluzji. Doświadczenia, problemy, perspektywy międzynarodowe, s. 461-484, Warszawa 2013
6. Schmidt Dariusz, Środek zabezpieczający stosowany wobec szczególnie groźnych sprawców czynów zabronionych w Niemczech. w: Przegląd Więziennictwa Polskiego, nr 83, Warszawa 2014, s. 43-87,
7. Schmidt Dariusz, Wybrane aspekty wykonywania kary pozbawienia wolności w krajach niemieckojęzycznych (na przykładzie Szwajcarii i Bawarii), w: Modernizowanie więziennictwa. V Kongres Penitencjarny, Wyd. UW IPSiR, CZSW, Warszawa 2015, str. 624-64
8. Schweizerisches Strafgesetzbuch vom 21. Dezember 1937 (Stand am 1. Juni 2008), Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bundeskanzlei, Bern 2008
9. Strafvollzug in Österreich, Bundesministerium für Justiz, Wien 2013
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