Naslov
Croatia: Religion in Prison – Equal Access in a Predominantly Catholic Society

Autori
Staničić, Frane ; Zrinščak, Siniša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Religion and Prison: An Overview of Contemporary Europe

Urednik/ci
Martínez-Ariño, Julia ; Zwilling, Anne-Laure

Izdavač
Springer

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
63-78

ISBN
978-3-030-36833-3

Ključne riječi
religion, prisons, equal access

Sažetak
The chapter investigates the role of religion in prisons in Croatia from legal and sociological points of view. As a legal provision about the religious rights of prisoners was set up only in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the intention was to determine whether it was respected by state authorities, in particular in relation to small religious communities and their believers. Based on the analysis of the legal framework and data gathered from the Ministry of Justice, as well as on semi- structured interviews with authorized religious persons from different religions, both majority and minority ones, it has been concluded that all religious communities have an equal access to prisons. However, this general conclusion is followed by a detailed description which shows how the system really works in its different aspects. An inclusive approach revealed in relation to the access of different religions to prisons is discussed in the Conclusion in relation to some particularities of the Croatian case, such as debates about religious presence in public institutions, limited and contested pluralization in Croatian society in general, weak state performance, etc.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Sociologija

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