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A senior as a crime offender
INTERHOLC, Radek
At the beginning, the theoretical part of this thesis deals with the subject of seniors and related issues of old age, with seniors being a specific population group defined demographically and age-wise. Higher age brings a human being certain particularities. Therefore it is appropriate to analyse seniors in the case of pathological social occurrences. On one side, there are victims of crimes amongst seniors, predominantly in connection with domestic violence and thefts, on the other hand there are addicted seniors or even crime offenders included in this generation. This thesis and its conception focus on the subject of seniors as well as on the subject of their criminal activity, which they are capable of committing. The theoretical part also deals with the subject of criminal offence and the offender as well as related terms. The practical part of the thesis includes a survey carried out through narrative discussion with selected crime offenders in the senior age ? over 65 in order to find out, what made the particular individuals commit crimes and whether they can at all realise this fact and assess the impact of the mentioned behaviour on society. The thesis is completed with the outline of criminal offences of seniors by means of data analysis. The author therefore focuses on the question of criminal activity of seniors in the analysis as well as on the perception of this activity by the seniors themselves. He uses the narrative discussions with the criminal offenders and at the same time compares this within the context of secondary data analysis of the idea for criminal activity. In the end, he expresses hypotheses about this context. The results indicate that seniors can realise and assess the extent of their crime as well as the impact of their crime on them and on society. The data analysis showed that the percentage of seniors committing crimes out of the total amount of all established crime offenders is 2.11%. Considering the fact that there are 13.8% people over 65 within the Czech Republic and with regard to the social and economic situation of pensioners, it can be said that the percentage of seniors as crime offenders is minimal on the whole.
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