Influence of Religious Services on Resocialization of Persons Serving a Prison Sentence

Bachelor thesis "Influence of religious services on resocialization of persons serving a prison sentence" initially describes evolution of prisons and spiritual development services from antiquity to the present. Subsequently, the personality of chaplain, his conjunction with ethics, activities of chaplain both while convict serves a prison sentence, so after the release of prisoners and documents on which the chaplain works in prisons, are introduced. In the next section there will be introduced the civic association "Vezeňská duchovenská péče". There are mentioned basic informations about the association, conditions of membership in the connection with voluntary services in prisons, conditions of membership in the chaplaincy service and position of chaplain within the prison staff. The final section summarizes results of the polls, which were presented to convicts visiting their chaplains in four different prisons. According to these results there should be found the goal of this bachelor thesis - find out why people in prisons are motivated for attending the spiritual service and what is the impact of this service (according to prisoners)