Faith and religious practices as a form of human longing for the permanence.

AUTHOR:
Kazimierz Pierzchała

ABSTRACT:

not condemned”]. The research has been conducted in four penitentiaries like in: Grudziądz, Lubliniec, Warsaw-Grochow, Warsaw-Sluzewiec. In 2003 prisoners were enquired with two questionnaires discussed, and in 2004 prisoners from the custody Warsaw-Służewiec – were asked to fill the “Questionnaire of an imprisoned person”. The preparation and application of this new enquiry tool issued from the necessity for a more detailed research of addiction problems (alcohol and drugs) and of paying more attention to the addictions. Researcher have been done in small groups, which was imposed by the specific character of the penitentiaries (necessity of keeping safe conditions, and, in the case of the temporarily arrested it was dictated by the division into, so called, isolation groups, which are connected with prisoners’ isolation on this stage of penal proceedings).
The research included three questionnaires: “Values preference”, ”Personal questionnaire”, and “Questionnaire of an imprisoned person”.

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