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Accessability of Social Services in the Issue of Domestic Violence Against Women from the Perspective of Social Workers.
SVOBODOVÁ, Nikola
Domestic violence in Czech Republic has been for a long time and unnamed taboo. In the 1990's it came to legislative changes, none-profit organizations interested in this phenomenon were established and they started to promote this issue among the general public. Nowadays there is growing an intensive need that forces us to explore domestic violence in our country. The aim of the study was to ascertain the availability of social services for victims of domestic violence according to the opinion of social workers. There was used a qualitative research strategy. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with six social workers, who were selected by an intentional (purposeful) choice, and who all work in the field of assistance to victims of domestic violence. The theoretical part introduces the basic concepts related to domestic violence, its character, forms, reasons, the course of domestic violence, the typical profile of the offender and the victim. In the next section I focused on the legal framework, which is valid for the Czech Republic. One chapter is devoted to social services providing their assistance to victims of domestic violence. In the last chapter there are social services concretized to those, operating in České Budějovice. The practical part describes the results of qualitative research, based on individual case studies located in the appendix of work. Thanks to compiled research results there was an opportunity to look into the issue of assistance provided to victims of domestic violence in the regional capital city of České Budějovice, and find out whether this service offer meets the demand of the clients who use them. The results show what kind of various services organizations offer to its clients, in which catchment area, in what form and how many clients are they able to take. Research also showed that the offer of social services for the city of České Budějovice is sufficient, but according to respondents, there are still things to be improved. There is an option to contact a number of organizations providing assistance to victims of domestic violence. However, this situation is not as positive in the smaller towns of the South Bohemian Region. The work could, in my opinion, contribute to greater public awareness about service provided for victims of domestic violence.
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Public attitude to abused women as victims of home violence in the South Bohemian Region
BEDLÁNOVÁ, Marta
A goal of the research part of my bachelor thesis was to find out what is an awareness of lay and professional public of women as victims of the domestic violence in the South Bohemian Region. Because I live in the South Bohemian Region, I focused the research just on this locality. I was especially interested in the fact, if people living in the South Bohemian Region are influenced by certain prejudices and stereotypes and whether they are sufficiently informed about the problem of the domestic violence. For the reason of a big number of respondents I chose an empirical method of the investigation {--} a quantitative research. To get necessary data I used a questionnaire method or the standardized set of question with an anonymous course. From summarized results of the research I concluded, that neither lay public nor professional public living in the South Bohemian Region, do not think of abused women as victims of the domestic violence with prejudices and stereotypes. However, the fact that people living in the South Bohemian Region do not think of abused women as the victims of the domestic violence with prejudices and stereotypes, does not mean that there are no myths, prejudices and stereotypes at the South Bohemian lay as well as professional public. For example I have registered a still prevalent myth at the lay public: ``women provoke men to use the violence{\crq}q. I noted an existence of the prejudice at the professional public: {\clq}qattractive and self-confident women do not become victims of the domestic violence{\crq}q. The other result of my bachelor thesis was to ascertain that, in contrast to sufficient information at the professional public, the lay public have not still enough information about the problem of the domestic violence. Currently I can see the lack of information mainly on the phenomenon at the lay public as the fundamental problem of the domestic violence. I think that it would be very useful, efficient, but also interesting to focus an attention on the way how to achieve to greatest possible awareness of the Czech public.
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Domestic violence, institute of expulsion from view of Policie ČR (novel of rule no. 273/2008 Sb., o Policii ČR)
NEUSCHEL, Zdeněk
Domestic violence is a social-pathology phenomenon, which requires a complex solution in terms of inter-disciplinary attitude. Key role in the system is the one of the Police of the Czech Republic (further PCR), which in most cases gets first into the contact with a victim and an offender and is authorized to the control and prevention of unacceptable act. According to the legal situation the policemen should secure the safety of an endangered individual, document the incident, effectively regulate a violent person and handle the specific communication with the victim of domestic violence. This thesis deals with the procedure of police organs at the solution of incidents, showing the signs of domestic violence in the connection to the adoption of Act No. 273/2008 Coll., on the PCR, which has been valid since 1st January 2009, and its comparison to the previous legal regulations solving the problems of domestic violence. The objective of the thesis is the description of valid legal regulations, their comparison to the previous state which was solved by the amendment of the original law on the Police of the Czech Republic carried out by the Act No. 135/2006 Coll., on protection against domestic violence valid from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2008 and the assessment of present development, especially if the simplification of work of PCR organs in this area (institute of expulsion of a violent person at the solution of incidents with the signs of domestic violence) influences the work of police and solution of these cases. The thesis itself was carried out by the method of questioning, the form of non-standardized interview in terms of qualitative research. The interview was carried out in the sample of police members, placed in basic police stations, where they solve the issue of domestic violence. The interview was also carried out with officials of various command types in the sphere of Regional Police Headquarters of South Bohemian Region. Other respondents were the workers of intervention centres, employees of social and law protection of children institutions and the workers of non-profit organizations functioning in South Bohemian Region and the analysis of study case. By the change of legal regulations the process concerning expulsion of violent person was changed (from the procedure in administrative action to authorisation of a police officer according to the law on PCR). It was found out that by the change in the procedure at expulsion of violent person out of the house by a police organ the course of expulsion became faster and also the possibility of efficient protection of an endangered individual. The change of the process has no effect on the incident assessment.
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The Way of Solution Problems of Domestic Violence in the Town České Budějovice
KOUTSKÁ, Tereza
This diploma paper deals with the problems of domestic violence. The work itself is divided into two separate consequential parts. Theoretical part is pointed at general description of particular topics concerning domestic violence. These topics are also systematically classified. Theoretical findings lead to the main aim of the theory, which is the chapter violent person. The practical part sets two goals. The first one was to prove that the attitude of the ordinary people to the sufficient work with violent person is negative, which has been proven in my survey. Second goal was to make up a hypothesis in terms of work with the violent person.
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Home Violence in the Czech Republic from the View of Law and Profession
HLEDÍKOVÁ, Veronika
Recently we have finally lived to experience of few changes in area of home violence in the Czech Republic. I mean the changes of legislation, but also changes in the spirit of helping professions and other professions , which experince difficulties with the home violence. The way has been long and it is still far from the end. I would say, that the biggest participation on these changes belongs to non-profit-making organizations, which have involved themself in these problems for many years. In my work I went through the way of changes and these, who features them in the profession. In the first part I focused on changes in legislation, next part I turned to professions,which deal with these problems. One part I also focused on non-profit-making organizations and statistical data.
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Health and social situacion of Women exposed to Domestic Abuse.
MÁTLOVÁ, Milena
Domestic violence involving women in relationships is no longer a private issue. Resolving this problem of domestic violence has spread from private non-profit organizations to state institutions. In 2006 a law for protection against domestic violence was passed and it also gives authorities a right to move a violent person out of their house. Raising awareness has become a priority for regional education of the public and media campaigns. Besides policemen, it' s also doctors, the first professionals, who can be asked for help by victims. These doctors can recognize domestic violence by visible injuries or be the symptoms evident from maltreatment. The target of this essay was to see the approach of doctors to women effected by domestic violence in the Kromeriz region and to find how well-informed they are about the help to these women in interdisciplinary teams. The theoretical part investigates the characteristics of intimate partner violence and its impact on health and social situation of abused women. It also describes the possibilities of help for victims, legislative arrangements and also the importance of doctors work in inter-regional cooperation. The practical part contains the analyses of quantitative research done by a request method by questionnaire technique, that was filled in by chosen doctors in the Kromeriz region. From this investigation follow that almost three quarters of respondents were asked by abused women but less than half of them cooperates with organizations intended to help victims of domestic violence. The enlightenment of the public is seen by doctors as necessary but underestimated. This also demonstrated the connection with a situation that the education of the public is not done almost in two thirds of doctors offices. This essay can be used to raise awareness of the general and especially the specialized public by educational seminars for doctors, nurses and can be published in special news letters and brochures.
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