Prison and Society Connected. The Development of the Czechoslovak Prison System in 1945–92

• Authors: Klára Pinerová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The aim of this article is to describe the transformation of the prison system during the years 1945–92 in Czechoslovakia. The following phases are analysed: the sovietisation process in the 1950s, the humanization and professionalization processes in the 1960s, the ambivalence between modernisation and repression in the 1970s and 1980s, and finally the democratisation that occurred after 1989. For each phase, it will be explained how the system was influenced by the concept of class struggle, mainly reflected in the approach to political prisoners, as well as a modernist-technocratic approach that gained priority at the time of the release of political prisoners in the 1960s. The aim is to show the dominant trends during this period and how the political and social context was reflected in the prison system.

Keywords

PL

prison system; Czechoslovakia; humanisation; penology; modernisation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 118

Dates

published

2018

online

2019-02-01

Contributors

author

Klára Pinerová

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2018.118.06