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Criminological aspects of organised crime
Pokorná, Eliška ; Scheinost, Miroslav (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
1 Criminological aspects of organised crime Abstract Organised crime is a serious issue affecting global society. Its influence globally destabilizes order and safety. In this thesis I provide a basic overview of the subject of organised crime and attempt to give a general insight into the main aspects of this phenomenon. Criminological aspects are introduced in the context of conceptualization, typologization and history of organised crime. Legal aspects are also given attention, with attempts to summarize most important legal tools in fighting organised crime. I have also attempted to provide a critique of current legislative measures with predictions about new challenges in controlling organised crime. First chapter focuses on introducing the phenomenon of organised crime. Various definitions of organised crime are explored and compared against one another. Further analysis of individual traits associated with the phenomenon follows. Last part of the chapter is devoted to exploring various criminal activities of organised crime. Second chapter focuses on typologies of criminal organisations. Four typologies are explored in total. First comes the summarization of a terminology by two Czech authors, Scheinost and Musil. Exploration of the typology provided by a United Nations survey follows. Third and...
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Criminological aspects of organized crime
Hrubá, Veronika ; Scheinost, Miroslav (advisor) ; Drápal, Jakub (referee)
Criminological Aspects of Organised Crime Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide an insight to the formation and functioning of organized criminal groups together with work on their exposure. In the first part of the thesis, it offers the basic characteristics of the terms organized crime and organized criminal group. It deals with organized crime in the Czech Republic and the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. It distinguishes between the terms organized crime group and an organized group and displays why the definition is so important from a criminal law point of view. The second part presents the perpetrators of organized crime, both from the point of view of their motivation for criminal activity, and from the point of view of the demands placed on such perpetrators. Finally, it divides the perpetrators into groups and analyses the perpetrators which are in the position of so-called white horses, including their criminal liability. If we already have an idea about the perpetrators, we can continue in the third part with the very formation of organized criminal groups, namely the causes of their formation, the function of trust and violence, the expansion of the group with new members and finally also the personality of the leader. In the fourth part the thesis continues by presenting basic...
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Criminological Aspects of Organised Crime
Klusáčková, Karolína ; Scheinost, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hořák, Jaromír (referee)
Criminological Aspects of Organised Crime Abstract The aim of this thesis is to comprehend the topic of organised crime in its entirety and to create an overview that will help to understand this phenomenon in the context of the contemporary world. The thesis analyses the phenomenon primarily from the criminological point of view but also from the criminal law point of view. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is a general treatise on organised crime. The second part pursues organised crime in the Czech Republic. The first chapter deals with the concept of organised crime from several perspectives. In addition to the legal and criminological definition, it also explores how this concept is defined in foreign literature. Furthermore, this chapter introduces the concept of transnational organised crime, the understanding of which is crucial for current criminology. At the end of the chapter, the differences between certain types of group criminal activities are explained. The author would like to highlight significance of the second chapter, which examines the subjects of organised crime, because chapters focused on victims and perpetrators are rather sporadic in the literature on organised crime. One of the subchapters is dedicated to the criminal organisation itself - it states what types...
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The issue of an offender's personality in criminology
Ďurčeková, Blanka ; Marešová, Alena (advisor) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis is concerned with question of offender's personality from the criminological point of view. In first few chapters I introduce some basic criminological theories and typologies and I tried to put together a general psychological profile of the offender. In the following part of thesis I deal with recidivist offenders, women delinquency and juvenile delinquency. In the last chapter I tried to analyze offenders in the Czech Republic, according to factors of age, gender and nationality, based on data from crime statistics.
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Criminological aspects of organized crime
Kovářová, Alena ; Scheinost, Miroslav (advisor) ; Hořák, Jaromír (referee)
7 Criminological aspects of organized crime Abstract The aim of this study named Criminological aspects of organized crime is mainly to provide a general insight to organized criminality as itself a systematize particular legal and social means, that are used to fight organized crime these days. Apart from the identification of the problems connected with application of certain means in practice I tried to outline possible solutions for the future that would lead to increasing the effectivity of fight with organized crime. The first chapter is focused on the general definition of organized crime and particular trait names that characterise organized crime and distinguish it from other forms of criminal activity. The second chapter called development of organized crime is dedicated mainly to historical roots of organized crime, its origin and changes through time. The most important global organized criminal groups are described in the second part of this chapter, which are an Italian Mafia, American La Cosa Nostra, Chinese triad and other. The third chapter focuses on typology of organized crime and particular internal organizational structure, their typical signs an expressions, whereas offers several means of division. In the fourth chapter, I devoted myself to the development of organized crime in the...
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Czech policy of fight against organized crime
Vrobel, Vojtěch ; Cejp, Martin (advisor) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis, Czech policy of fight with organised crime, is focused on description and interpretation of evolution of policies used to fight organised crime in Czech republic from the beginning of 90s to present days. Theoreticaly this work issues from the punctuated equilibrium theory a theory of secuiritization. With help of these theories it explains agenda setting in discuted area and identifies breaking points which punctuated periods of equilibriums of this policy. Data sources for this work are chosen documents and expert interveiws. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Thieves in law - post-soviet criminal world leaders (from "perestroica" until today)
Dluhoš, Marek ; Reiman, Michal (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
The work deals with thieves in law as chiefs of Russian-language criminal organizations. On the basis of an analysis of available sources, and their historical, criminologically focused processing, there is examined a hypothesis that criminality represented by the thieves in law creates in its fight against the society a specific form of self-defence. Part of the work being also an answer to a question to what extent today's division into old and new vors is topical, and whether this world has modernized in permanent relation to the environment surrounding it. The author proceeds in his analysis from the role of the thief in law as the individuality acting in constant tension with the society to the characterization of the thieves in law and to relations by which they are connected. He also focuses on power structures to which the thieves in law are subordinated. Thus, the author pursues an overall picture of chiefs of the Vor world and its possible modernization. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Women's Criminality
Říhová, Kateřina ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
The aim of this Thesis is to expound and describe the topic of female criminality. The Thesis is divided in three main parts: the first is focused on description of female criminality through explaining important criminological theories and also through description of the size, dynamic and structure of female criminality in the Czech Republic. The second part of my thesis is concerned with sentenced women in prisons with the focus on specific issues of imprisonment of women. The last part is dedicated to the issue of prevention of females' criminality and also of use of alternative sanctions as solution of woman criminality.
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The issue of an offender's personality in criminology
Ďurčeková, Blanka ; Marešová, Alena (advisor) ; Scheinost, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis is concerned with question of offender's personality from the criminological point of view. In first few chapters I introduce some basic criminological theories and typologies and I tried to put together a general psychological profile of the offender. In the following part of thesis I deal with recidivist offenders, women delinquency and juvenile delinquency. In the last chapter I tried to analyze offenders in the Czech Republic, according to factors of age, gender and nationality, based on data from crime statistics.
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