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BODY AS A PROJECT: THE RELATIONSHIP CZECH PRISONERS HAVE TO THEIR BODIES

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Dirga L.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2017
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vol. 49
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issue 6
636 – 656
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The text focuses on the relationship inmates have to their bodies during imprisonment. The data presented in this study are based on ethnographic research carried out in Czech men's high security prisons. The data set consists of interviews with partakers from the “world of prisoners”, observations from prisons and analysis of documents relating to Czech prison service. The analysis shows there is a strong relationship between the physical body and the process of constructing manhood/masculinity in the population of inmates. The physical body is one of crucial components of the masculine/macho prison code/culture. The attitude inmates have to their bodies seems to be altering, depending on the stage of imprisonment in which they currently are. For the description of this alteration the author uses the concept of the body as a project, which may serve as one of the possible ways of understanding the importance of the physical body to inmates during their imprisonment and changing motivations to its further development.
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Možnosti a úskalí vězeňské etnografie: metodologická reflexe využití vězeňské etnografie v českém kontextu

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Dirga L.
Česká kriminologie (Czech Criminology)
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2016
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vol. 1
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issue 2
1-12
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The aim of the article is to methodologically reflect possibilities and pitfalls of prison ethnography in the Czech prison research. Based on his own survey of Czech prisons, the author discusses some potentially dangerous parts of research in this field with emphasis placed on administrative obstacles, researcher‘s position in the process of data production and research ethics. Using prison ethnography in the Czech context is compared with a position of ethnography as a scientific discipline in the global prison research. Despite many methodological difficulties, the author considers the prison ethnography to be an effective way of analyzing prison system in the Czech Republic. For the purpose of successful development of the Czech prison ethnography a critical methodological discussion is necessary. The aim of the article is to contribute to such discussion.
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Convict criminology: nový směr vězeňského výzkumu?

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Dirga L.
Česká kriminologie (Czech Criminology)
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2017
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vol. 2
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issue 1
1-10
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The aim of this paper is to introduce a relatively new and controversial perspective in the field of criminology to Czech readers; the Convict Criminology (or also called the New School of Convict Criminology). Convict Criminology represents especially the work of convicts or ex-convicts, in possession of a Ph.D. or on their way to completing it. After introducing the Convict Criminology, the author discusses methodological possibilities of Convict Criminology in relation to a general level of prison research. Paper is also focused on different kinds of prison researchers and on research collaboration between “inside” and “outside” observer.
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RELIGIOSITY BEHIND BARS: FORMS OF INMATE'S RELIGIOSITY IN THE CZECH PRISON SYSTEM

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Váně J., Dirga L.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2016
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vol. 48
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issue 6
641 – 663
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The text focuses on the multiple forms of religiosity (based on different types of motivation) of inmates in Czech prisons from the perspective of three groups of respondents: prison inmates, prison guards and representatives of a number of churches. The study is based on an ethnographic study of prisons in the Czech Republic. The data corpus includes qualitative interviews with selected actors in the prison world, material gathered through observations inside prisons and an analysis of the documentation on the Czech penitentiary system. Through this research, we found that the key respondents feel that there is some ambivalence around the religiosity of inmates and that the pragmatic approach many inmates take to faith is becoming a controversial issue. Our research demonstrated that the presence of religiosity of inmates in prison is not really accepted in a clearly positive manner as it may seem at first glance. On the contrary, the presence of it in prisons has become the subject of controversy among its main actors.
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