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The Czech Youth: Comparison of two studies of delinquency
Čermáková, Iveta ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Krulichová, Eva (referee)
The thesis is the evaluation of changes in the structure and development of the prevalence of juvenile delinquency based on a comparison of official police statistics and two self-reports research ISRD-2 and ISRD-3. Research ISRD-3 in 2013 took place in the Czech Republic for the second time (ISRD-2 took place in 2006-7). Both surveys are anchored in the criminological theories of juvenile delinquency, which are summarized in the theoretical part. At the beginning there are also defined the basic concepts related to delinquency of children and adolescents, and there are shown the typical features of juvenile delinquency. The methodological part of the thesis approaches the issue of police statistics and self-report research. This part is devoted to research methodology ISRD, especially with regard to the use of research tools in the Czech Republic and also comparing questionnaire ISRD-2 and ISRD-3. In the last part of the thesis evaluates the development of juvenile delinquency and change the structure of delinquency based on the data presented in the methodological part. Keywords: Youth delinquency, self-report delinquency research, ISRD-2, ISRD-3, prevalence of delinquency
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Alcohol use by youth: an empirical test of Skog's theory of distribuce of alcohol consumption
Čermáková, Iveta ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This master thesis presents a theory of distribution of alcohol consumption by a Norwegian sociologist Ole-Jørgen Skog (1985), which has had an influence on many alcohol policies. Skog's theory described the relationship between the average alcohol consumption in the population and the consumption at all levels of consumption (from light to heavy drinkers). A change in the average consumption of the population is always followed by a change at each level of consumption; Skog describes this relationship as log-linear (multiple) and argues that the largest changes appears at the level of light drinkers. Another key point of this thesis is to describe the development of underage alcohol consumption in the Czech Republic, compared with Finland, which is the subject of the second chapter. A comparison with Finland was chosen based on the results of an international survey ESPAD, which showed that both countries have different trends in alcohol consumption by youth, and in its excessive form as well (Hibell et al., 2012). Data analysed in this thesis come from international surveys ISRD and ESPAD, which consistently showed that alcohol consumption increases over time among Czech youth, while it decreases in Finland. Furthermore, the Czech Republic has higher prevalence of alcohol consumption. In the...
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