SPEDB108 Penitentiary Care

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2027
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mgr. Petr Juříček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Zajíčková
Supplier department: Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SPEDB002 Social Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The course pursues two objectives: to bring students closer to the issues of penology and penitentiary education, as sciences dealing with restrictions of offenders in imprisonment, like a part of our the judicial apparatus. The second objective of the course is to orient students to activities that increase the chance of prisoners to make positive changes in their personality. The course introduces motivational aspects of professional staff in prisons, thank to support prisoners to change to living style after release. It was directed towards positive thinking during inmates live in imprisonment.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course, the student will be able:
- to create the basic diagnostics of convicted prisoners, according to the diagnosis of SARPO, which is used in drawing up treatment programs for prisoners.
- to prepare a treatment program for the prisoner based on personality profile, in context of possible further education and using in civilian life.
- to know the evaluation its basic parts and parameters. At the same time will be able to prepare of the program updates.
Key topics
  • 1.Penology and penitentiary education
  • 2. The history of punishment, its concept and legal regulation
  • 3. The Prison Systém of the Czech Republic
  • 4. Problematic of custody
  • 5. Problems connected with the inmates treatment progam (employment of convicted persons, drug addiction, prison subculture, ...)
  • 6. Work with persons in custody (treatment programs and other resocialization programs)
  • 7. Post-penitentiary care with people after releas
  • The course is conceived as a comparison of the Czech prison system and selected prison systems in Europe.
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • JŮZL, Miloslav. Penitenciaristia jako věda žalářní. Vydání I. Praha: Univerzita Jana Amose Komenského, 2017, 384 stran. ISBN 9788074521317. info
  • RASZKOVÁ, Tereza and Stanislava SVOBODA HOFERKOVÁ. Kapitoly z penologie. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 2013, 125 s. ISBN 9788074352645. info
  • HÁLA, Jaroslav. Úvod do teorie a praxe vězeňství. 2. doplněné vydání. České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, 2006, 183 stran. ISBN 8086708306. info
    recommended literature
  • VAŇKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Penitenciaristika v kontextu prevence sociálně patologických jevů. 2016. info
  • VETEŠKA, Jaroslav. Mediace a probace v kontextu sociální andragogiky. Vydání první. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2015, 251 stran. ISBN 9788074788987. info
  • NEDBÁLKOVÁ, Kateřina. Má vězení střední rod? aneb Maskulinita a femininita ve vězeňských subkulturách (Does Prison Have a Gender? Maskulinity and Femininity in Prison Subcultures). Sociologický časopis. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV R, 2003, vol. 39, No 4, p. 469-486, 17 pp. ISSN 0038-0288. info
  • Koncepce vězeňství do roku 2025 (2016). Dostupné z http://vscr.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Koncepce-vezenstvi.pdf
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
Lecture and Seminar – Explanation, discussion based on the study of professional literature, work with audiovisual materials (documentary films), demonstrations of practical procedures in the field of penitentiary pedagogy directly within the execution of a prison sentence.

To complete the course, a workload of 125 hours (5 ECTS credits) is expected:
30 hours – Attendance in classes
25 hours – Reading professional literature, self-study of study materials, i.e., required and recommended literature
25 hours – Independent application of educational procedures based on the SARPO diagnostic method
10 hours – Preparation of the interpretation of one's seminar paper according to the selected assignment (Treatment Program or Comprehensive Report)
35 hours – Individual elaboration of the seminar paper according to the assignment and its presentation
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Students are required to complete a treatment program for the person in imprisonment due to their personality profile, length of conviction and other parameters based on the offender's diagnosis. Students will prepare the concept for the last lecture, where they will present this output in an oral presentation of approx. 5 minutes. It is necessary to attend courses, for understanding of the given issue, because the methodology of processing of treatment programs is not fundamentally processed in the actual publications.
Alternate completion
Please get in touch with the course instructor regarding further options.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2026.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2027, recent)
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