Radicalisation in Czech prisons : empowering of prison staff as “must” for effective facing the issue

VEJVODOVÁ, Petra and Ondřej KOLÁŘ. Radicalisation in Czech prisons : empowering of prison staff as “must” for effective facing the issue. In 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. 2017.

Basic information

• Original name: Radicalisation in Czech prisons : empowering of prison staff as “must” for effective facing the issue
• Authors: VEJVODOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ondřej KOLÁŘ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 2017.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50601 Political science
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Conference booklet
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/17:00095046
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Keywords in English: radicalisation; prison; Czech republic; prison staff; education
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

Even though radicalisation of inmates in prisons belongs to one of the crucial issues when it comes to dealing with extremism and radicalisation processes, for the Czech prisons this is new challenge that prison staff is facing to. Extremism and terrorism belong among one of the security threats for the Czech Republic, on the other hand in comparison with West European countries is this threat less immediate. Level of extremism in the Czech society is rather low, revealed cases of radicalized individuals willing to commit politically or religiously motivated criminal acts e.g. foreign fighters, are rather exceptional. But on the background of the current situation in Europe Czech inmates are getting radicalised or are imprisoned already being radicalised and contrary to the social situation it is not exceptional. The contribution reflects current situations in Czech prisons in context of political or religious radicalisation and discusses the attempts of the Czech prison service in order to empower prison staff, i.e. pilot projects in education of prison staff, so the prevention and intervention will be as much effective and successful as possible.

Links

• GA17-09296S, research and development project: Name: Radikalizace politiky ve střední Evropě v době krizí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

• MUNI/M/1748/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Determinanty růstu extremismu a populismu v čase ekonomické krize

Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects