European welfare, correctional and aiding systems

obligatory courses

Holding the knowledge on fundamentals of correctional pedagogy, sociology and criminology; skills to use the knowledge one possesses, among that using the theory and legislative regulations regarding the named above subjects while describing educational reality.

Classroom

The subject is devoted to the presentation of issues connected with welfare, correction and help for the people who are not socially adapted in the contemporary Europe. There is going to be shown an evolution of approaches towards such people which shapes the current image of European correctional, welfare and aiding systems. There are going to be discussed main entities, among them the Council of Europe and European and national legislation with regard to juveniles and protection of their rights. There are also going to be presented solutions used in Poland and in some European countries.

The goal of the subject is to introduce a contemporary image of how to treat children and youth that are not socially adapted and how to provide welfare and help with them, among that

- evolution of the contemporary model of the European correctional, welfare and aiding systems

- entities that deal with European social reintegration politics

- selection of global, European and national legislative regulations

- Polish law standards in the matter

- institutional correctional system and preventive treatment in Poland

- welfare and correctional systems in selected European countries

- contemporary European trends and tendencies

In the introduction part there is going to be presented evolution of views on issues connected with welfare and correction of children and youth, to introduce later entities and legislative regulations on global, European and national grounds. To understand these issues more profoundly there will be information on specific solutions used in Poland and selected European countries (Western and Central Europe and Scandinavia) both in institutional and out-of-institutional forms. In the summary part, trends in European correctional and welfare development will be shown, among these, substitute care, how to deal with addicts, the role of a probation officer, new institutional forms or changes in the penitentiary politics.

There will be introduced group work as well as development of computer and multimedia skills, within the above, skills in creating multimedia presentations. During the process of looking for information about European solutions language skills, especially English and German, will be developed.

Estimated number of hours that students should devote to achieve desired effects of learning

seminar - 30 hours

self study work – 10 hours

preparations for exams - 10 hours

TOTAL approx.- 50 hours

Obligatory source materials

1.Badora S., Marzec D. (red.) System opieki kompensacyjnej w zjednoczonej Europie, Kraków 2002.

2.Europejskie Reguły Więzienne. Zalecenie nr R (87) 3 dla państw członkowskich Rady Europy przyjęte przez Komitet Ministrów dnia 12 lutego 1987 r. podczas 404 posiedzenia Delegatów Ministrów.

3.Gajdus D., Gronowska B. Europejskie standardy traktowania więźniów. (Rekonstrukcja standardów oraz ich znaczenie dla polskiego prawa i praktyki penitencjarnej), Toruń 1998

4.Kalinowski M. Resocjalizacja nieletnich w państwach europejskich i pozaeuropejskich. Wyd. APS, Warszawa, 2005

5.Kalinowski M. Europejskie systemy resocjalizacji i zapobiegania niedostosowaniu społecznemu młodzieży w środowisku otwartym. Warszawa 2007

6.Płatek M. Systemy penitencjarne państw skandynawskich na tle polityki kryminalnej, karnej i penitencjarnej. Wyd. UW, Warszawa 2007

7.Kozaczuk F. (red.) Optymalizacja oddziaływań resocjalizacyjnych w Polsce i w niektórych krajach europejskich. Wyd. URz., Rzeszów 2006

8.Rekomendacja Rec (2006) 2 Komitetu Ministrów Państw Członkowskich w sprawie Europejskich Reguł Więziennych. Europejski Komitet Problematyki Przestępczości (CDPC), Rada Współpracy Penalnej (PC-CP), Strasbourg, 9 lutego 2005

9.Stańdo - Kawecka B. Prawne podstawy resocjalizacji. Kraków 2000

10.Ustawa z dnia 6 czerwca 1997 r. - Kodeks karny wykonawczy (Dz. U. Nr 90, poz. 557, 1997 r. z późn. zm. (Dz. U. Nr 142, poz. 1380, 2003 r.).

11.Ustawa z dnia 26 października 1982 r. o postępowaniu w sprawach nieletnich (Dz. U. z 2002r. Nr 11, poz.109, Nr 58, poz. 542, z 2003 r. Nr 137, poz.1304, Nr 223, poz. 2217)

Suplementary source materials

1.Dünkel F., Kestermann C., Zolondek J. (red.) Internationale Studie zum Frauenstrafvollzug. Bestandsaufnahme, Bedarfsanalyse und "best practice". University Greifswald, Dep. Of Criminology, 2005

2.Walczak – Żochowska A. Systemy postępowania z nieletnimi w państwach europejskich. Wyd. Prawnicze, Warszawa 1988

3.Rozporządzenie Ministra Pracy i Polityki Społecznej z dnia 14 lutego 2005 w sprawie placówek opiekuńczo – wychowawczych (Dz. U z dnia 4 marca 2005, nr 37, poz. 331)

Knowledge

Having finished the process of learning, based on accumulated knowledge, a student:

• explains the origin and the goal of functioning of the contemporary European correctional, welfare and aiding systems

• describes functioning mechanisms of the contemporary European institutional and out-of-institutional solutions

• analyses the variety of used institutional and out-of-institutional solutions in European countries

• recognizes weak and strong aspects of European entities’ activities in the field of social reintegration

Skills

Having finished the process of learning, a student has the following skills:

• correctly assesses the European solutions with the goals of correctional education, welfare and aiding systems

• interprets different European legal solutions from the point of view of their correctional usefulness

• assess the policy of European countries regarding reactions to demoralization and children and youth’s lack of social adaptation

Personal and social competences

Having finished the process of learning, a student has the following personal and social competences:

• follows the ethical rules of correctional stuff and in European law

• verifies activities of Polish correctional, welfare and aiding institutions from European point of View

• is aware of the need to change the system of correctional, welfare and aiding solutions

Knowledge

• Test

• level of acquiring study material to be prepared by students for each lecture

Skills

• oral exam

• multimedia Presentation

• being active during the classes

Social competences

• oral exam

• multimedia Presentation

• being active during the classes

not required