Criminal Pedagogy and the Reintegration of Prisoners

Abstract

Criminal pedagogy is a branch of science unknown to – or at least unused by – the Anglo–Saxon coun-tries. One of our most important goals with this monograph is to provide a comprehensive summa-ry of the principal attributes of this field of science for those experts, scientists, teachers and universi-ty students who gather their material from English academic literature.We sincerely hope that by providing an in-troduction to criminal pedagogy, we can provide a novel insight to the reader, contributing to the joint effort of tertiary crime prevention. We hope that by introducing the evolution of criminal peda gogy, we can convey our opinion on the im-portance of events taking place within prisons and their influence on the post-release life of prisoners. Trying to reduce detrimental effects in prisons is not enough. We have to create a structured whole of programs, treatments, therapies, education and trainings which can be used by the prisoners for their improvement. By presenting a criminal- pedagogical personality-evaluation structure, we want to provide background knowledge of prac-tical usability; determining the elements in one’s personality which could be addressed in order to facilitate further changes.