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Economic Criminality in Expert Discussions in 1970s and 1980s Czechoslovakia
Šinkovec, Pavel ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Vilímek, Tomáš (referee)
Thesis abstract The thesis deals with expert discussions on economic criminality in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and 1980s. The first chapter introduces the issue in the macroeconomic and social context and outlines the dual way in which the practice of illegal enrichment was depicted in contemporary film and TV-series production. The second chapter introduces dominant authoritative discourse and its concept of economic crime as a phenomenon alien to the socialist regime. This view has also been reflected in the legislative adjustment, as well as party and government measures to dispose of the undesirable phenomenon. The following third chapter focuses on contemporary criminology science as an expert community, whose primary focus was on analyzing and proposing measures to address various crime-related problems. The institutional integration of the Research Institute of Criminology, the main platform of criminological research in the state, to the Prosecutor General's Office, and the influence of Marxist science on criminological methodology, reflected the authoritative discourse into professional discussions. The content analysis of twenty selected texts of non- public professional provenance shows in several areas the extent to which the influence of ideology was noticeable and, on the contrary, how...
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Drug Issues in Czechoslovakia 1918 - 1960
Šinkovec, Pavel ; Randák, Jan (advisor) ; Kolář, Jan (referee)
(in English): This thesis describes the development of the Czechoslovak drug issue between years 1918 and 1960. This period is divided into three parts, which contains an image of the drug scene, drug users, public view on the issue, the reaction of officials on the problem and connection with foreign scenes. The first part deals with the First Czechoslovak republic and its drug abuse within the upper class and demimonde. The second part describes the nearly disappeared drug issue in the 1940's. Lastly the third part deals with the drug scene in the 1950's, that was officially gone, while it just took the form of latent abuse of medicaments. The main focus is on changes of the drug scene and their causes.
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Function of the Cadre and Personnel Departments in Czechoslovakia in the Period 1948-1989
Šinkovec, Pavel ; Kocianová, Renata (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis discusses the impact of the activities of Cadre and Personnel Departments in Czechoslovakia during the rule of the Communist Party. The study is based on historical documents, learning materials, and secondary vocational studies, monographs and collections of materials and describes constitution, functioning and changes in personnel policy and nomenclature of the Communist Party in the period between February 1948 and November 1989. In its analytical part there are listed and categorized various functions of Cadre Departments which were practical executor of personnel policy in public administration, and economic organizations. Work also notes a shift in the perception of such terms as "cadre" or "nomenclature" during the time period and interprets the phenomenon as a specific form of bureaucracy, a new social class and confronts the matter with the theory of totalitarianism.
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