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Juvenile delinquency and its moral aspects
Průšová, Barbora ; Buriánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Podaná, Zuzana (referee)
This thesis is focused on analysis of youth delinquency in terms of Per-Olof H. Wikström's Situational Action Theory or rather modelling data relating to this area of research International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3. The main aim of the thesis is to introduce and evaluate this theoretical-empirical model for the explanation of youth delinquency. The work is split into three main parts - theoretical, methodological and empirical. First one consists of the definition of basic concepts and show Wikström' s 'situational action theory applied to the delinquency topic. In methodological part there is a description of ISRD-3 survey, basic indicators of sample and data collection methods used. And then there is an explanation how operationalization of individual explanatory variables in the model was done. Empirical part is dedicated to multidimensional analysis of data and evaluation of this concept. The results demonstrate the success of the analytical model and its application as a default theory in the examination of youth delinquency.
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Comparison of Juvenile Delinquency in the Czech Republic and Germany
Mazák, Jaromír ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This Master thesis explores delinquency of juvenile Czechs and Germans from seventh to ninth grade based on quantitative data. The data comes from an International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2), which is anchored primarily in the Social control theory (Hirschi, 1969/2002) and the General theory of crime (Gottfredson, Hirschi, 1990). Therefore, in the first section, attention is paid to these and other selected criminological theories; the other theories are mainly the strain theories and the cultural deviance theories. In the second section, the thesis deals briefly with the socio- cultural differences and similarities between the Czech Republic and Germany. The core of the thesis is the third, analytical section, which presents the findings of statistical analysis. A conclusion is reached that the theories studied are by far less contradictory than what the authors of the social control theory and the general theory of crime claimed them to be. It rather seems that the individual theories are complementary and often lead to the same predictions. Hypotheses are confirmed that some characteristics of the pupils` relation to their school are related to delinquency: Pupils who like going to school are somewhat less delinquent than pupils who do not. Pupils who play truant are substantially...
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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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Identification of a respondent as a gang member in ISRD-2: Czech republic in the European context
Moravcová, Eva ; Buriánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Sládek, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on problems with identification of respondent as a gang member from the standpoint of process of operationalisation, which give a selection of adequate indicators, in international survey International Self-Report Delinquency Study 2. Its objective is to propose a revision of existing definition of Eurogang for selected European countries and evaluate the possibility of creating one universal definition of a gang across Europe. The thesis is separated into three parts: theoretical, methodological and empirical. In the first part we particularly pay attention to the basic conceptions of juvenile delinquency. Subsequently, we discuss different types of definitions and the way of their formation. Finally, we mention important definitions of a gang that are often used in many surveys which focus on gangs or delinquent groups in general. In methodological part of the thesis we present the most important indicators of juvenile delinquency: official statistics and self-report studies. One of them is also the international survey ISRD-2. We concentrate not only on techniques of data collection and definition of the gang and its operationalisation according to Eurogang group, which were used in this survey, but also on basic information about sample for all analyzed countries and limit...
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