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Professional training of prison service workers in the Czech Republic: historical development, aspects of importance and current challenges.
Int J Prison Health (2024)
January 2025
Department of Pedagogy, AMBIS vysoká škola, a.s./ AMBIS University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the historical development and current challenges of professional training for prison service staff in the Czech Republic. This study focuses on the transition from a repressive system under communism to a democratic approach emphasising human rights, ethics and professionalisation. It aims to assess the effectiveness of the current training programmes and their alignment with international standards, highlighting their impact on safety, recidivism reduction and prisoner re-socialisation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding internationalization variance within a sport brand: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs.
Front Sociol
October 2024
Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, Prague, Czechia.
This article examines the internationalization of HC Sparta Prague (ice hockey) and AC Sparta Prague (football) by focusing on management decision-making. Using interviews with key personnel, it explores the varying levels of internationalization in these clubs, emphasizing their reliance on foreign players, the utility of foreign ownership, fan responses to foreign coaching, and marketing efforts toward foreigners. Football, being more global, is subject to 'Europeanization,' whereas ice hockey, centered in North America, is influenced by 'Americanization' and 'eventification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychiatric Experiments with "Community" Under Dictatorship and Authoritarianism: The Case of the Protected Commune Experience, 1980-1989.
Cult Med Psychiatry
December 2024
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
In Chile, a long and oppressive military regime (1973-1990) dismantled emergent initiatives for the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric care, imposing a neoliberal constitution that opened public services to market forces and limited the state's role in health and social care. After being associated with communism and socialism, community-based mental health work was banned, and socialist psychiatrists were silenced through torture or exile. However, some therapeutic initiatives persisted, such as the "Protected Commune" (PC) initiative within the El Peral psychiatric asylum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSecular change in heights of rural adults in west-central poland between 1986 and 2016: The transition from pre- to post-communism.
Econ Hum Biol
April 2024
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, USA; School of Public Health and Information Sciences and Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Secular change in the heights of adult men and women resident in ten rural communities in west-central Poland in four decennial surveys between 1986 and 2016 is considered. The adults were parents of children attending schools in rural communities in the province of Poznań. During each survey, parents of school children were asked to complete a questionnaire which requested their ages, heights and completed levels of education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBetween conformity and individuality: Psychologists in Czechoslovakia during normalization (1968-1989).
Hist Psychol
May 2024
Department of Psychology, University of New York in Prague.
The study examines the development of psychology in former Czechoslovakia during the period of "normalization" (1968-1989) and the challenges it faced under the communist regime. The restricted connection to Western psychology and the regime's control over all aspects of human activity negatively influenced the continuity of development in psychology. The regime demanded conformity, leaving individuals, including psychologists, in recurring states of internal conflict and intellectual discomfort when deciding how much to compromise in their personal and professional lives.
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