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Specifics of Criminal Thinking in Offenders
Bočanová, Dominika ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Gillernová, Ilona (referee)
The thesis deals with the concept of criminal thinking which has attracted attention mainly of foreign forensic psychologists in the last few years, primarily for its proven relation with antisocial behavior and for the possibility of being influenced by changing the antisocial attitudes and because it also seems to be an effective recidivism predictor. The thesis aims to map the specifics of criminal thinking by using PICTS-cz in violent crime offenders and to deepen the understanding of the concept of criminal thinking in our conditions. The goal of the theoretical part is to introduce and broadly outline the area of the entire criminal thinking phenomenon which does not have a uniform definition. For a complex understanding of the issue, attention is paid to definition of the most important concepts related to the topic, its relations with sociodemographic characteristics, characteristics of committed crimes and other psychological phenomena, and also the issue of violent crime is introduced. Research survey is implemented in 138 convicted violent crime offenders. The results present their specific characteristics of criminal thinking which are then compared mainly with foreign samples for a demonstration of their most significant differences. Attention is also paid to the specifics of criminal...
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Specifics of Criminal Thinking in Offenders
Bočanová, Dominika ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Gillernová, Ilona (referee)
The thesis deals with the concept of criminal thinking which has attracted attention mainly of foreign forensic psychologists in the last few years, primarily for its proven relation with antisocial behavior and for the possibility of being influenced by changing the antisocial attitudes and because it also seems to be an effective recidivism predictor. The thesis aims to map the specifics of criminal thinking by using PICTS-cz in violent crime offenders and to deepen the understanding of the concept of criminal thinking in our conditions. The goal of the theoretical part is to introduce and broadly outline the area of the entire criminal thinking phenomenon which does not have a uniform definition. For a complex understanding of the issue, attention is paid to definition of the most important concepts related to the topic, its relations with sociodemographic characteristics, characteristics of committed crimes and other psychological phenomena, and also the issue of violent crime is introduced. Research survey is implemented in 138 convicted violent crime offenders. The results present their specific characteristics of criminal thinking which are then compared mainly with foreign samples for a demonstration of their most significant differences. Attention is also paid to the specifics of criminal...
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Aggressive tendencies in drawings of primary school children
BOČANOVÁ, Dominika
The Bachelor thesis compares drawings of primary school age children, specifically boys from 9 to 11 years old. Theoretical part focuses on specification of primary school age, aggression, aggressivity and children's drawing. Empirical part's content is a mixed research with main goal of comparing drawings of boys with aggresive tendencies with drawings of boys without these tendencies or with much less of them. The research question asks in what attributes the drawings of both groups of boys are different. In the research The Hand Test was used, through which the research sample for drawing of a human figure was chosen. The drawing describes the differences between the groups based on stated criteria related to aggressivity in drawings. Results show that group of boys with aggressive tendencies from the research sample displays most of the given criteria to a greater extent.
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