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Offender profiling and the possibilities for its use in arson cases.
Linhartová, Barbora ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Gillernová, Ilona (referee)
The theme of the thesis is psychological offender profiling and the possibilities that it offers in the investigation of arson cases. First it introduces profiling as an investigation method, including its history, the sources on which it is based, what kind of information it contains and how it is created. Next it follows up the problematic issue of fires, their investigation and the classification of intentionally set fires. It also introduces some particular arsonist offender subtypes. Then it pursues the arson profiling and introduces the main profiling approaches. In the end, the author applies the acquired findings to analyze two arson cases according to the particular profiling approaches and then compares the provided leads to a possible offender.
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Psychosocial characteristics of juveline offenders commiting serious crimes
Spurná, Ivana ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee) ; Jůzl, Miloš (referee)
Dissertation thesis Psychosocial characteristics of juvenile offenders committing serious crimes deals with the juvenile offenders sentenced for a murder commission in the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into two parts that are a casuistic part and empiric one. Both parts are based on a large research carried out by means of the sample of 19 juveniles within Czech prisons specialized at this age category. Furthermore the casuistic theoretical part is focused on particular socialization and personal characteristics related to juvenile crime. The empiric part lies in research findings on juvenile murderers including female perpetrators resulting from a set of psychological methods and interviews with the convicted persons. Key words Crime Murder - murderer Juvenile Family Education School Peer Leisure time Addictive substances Personality Self-reflection Life satisfaction Mental capability Aggression Psychopathology
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Suicidium in Penitentiary Practice
Dohnal, Petr ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee) ; Loneková, Katarína (referee)
This rigorous work deals with important phenomenon which is known by humankind from time out of mind. It is the phenomenon of suicide, intensified in this case by the fact that it happens behind bars among convicted people who are imprisoned or held in custody. These people find themselves in completely different living conditions than they were used to. Hardly anybody can put up with it completely and that is the reason why frustration occurs which leads to aggression, apathy and others. In critical situations it can lead to self-harming, attempted suicide or even successful suicide. The aim of this rigorous work is thus explanation of causes of suicidal acting of accused and imprisoned people. The work deals with complex view of suicide rate among Czech convicts in the Czech prison system. It is focused on basic terms of suicide, its solutions, theory of aggression and own issues of suicide in penitentiary practice. Basic fundaments of this rigorous work are epistemological solutions arranged as follows: terminological, philosophical, religious, historical and psychological. It continues in theory of aggression finished by automutilation. The core of the work lies in the analysis of suicidal behavior of convicted people in penitentiary practice and their comparison from 2012 to 2015, except for...
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Freiburg Personality Inventory in the Context of the Penitentiary Care
Volf, Petr ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee) ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee)
The thesis aims to expand the possibilities for diagnosing sentenced persons by the Freiburg Personality Inventory, which appears to be, in terms of penal custody as a useful tool. There is only one Slovak translation of this method from 1984 including standards for a population already existent state. Its use is problematic past 23 years and unextended. In contrast, demand for updated diagnostic tools that are not too time-consuming and difficult to administrate, and which would also underwent scaling to a specific population sample, creates space for effective use of the FPI in penitentiary practice. The theoretical part contains introduction to the method, theoretical background and the basis of the FPI and its comparison with other instruments used for personality diagnostics, possibilities and limits of its use. At the same time it focuses on the specifics of the prison population, the description of the personality in terms of its structure and dynamics, and the possibility of diagnostics including the currently used diagnostic tools. It also includes a summary of intervention programs implemented in prisons of the Czech Republic. The main outputs of the empirical part are standards of FPI - K for prison population and a shortened, 47 item variant of FPI - V, while maintaining psychometric...
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Threats, risks and prevention of violent radicalization of individuals
Kvasničková, Barbora ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Čáp, David (referee)
My thesis Threats, risks and prevention of violent radicalization of individuals deals with the phenomenon of radicalization, especially with violent radicalization of an individual. The theoretical section provides current theoretical background with emphasis on contemporary models and theories of radicalization. Further attention is paid to an individual in the process of violent radicalization, risk factors and comparison of self- radicalization of lone assailants and radicalization of an individual within terrorist group or within mainstream society. Specifics of radicalization in Czech Republic, contemporary risks and possibilities of prevention of the phenomenon are also included. As a research method in the empirical part, whose aim was to map key knowledge about radicalization in Czech Republic and experience of refined experts in this area, I chose a qualitative research strategy. Research group consists of 12 experts in the field of psychology, Political Sciences, members of armed forces and academic scholars, touching the topic of radicalization in their field of work. The data was obtained through the series of semi-structured interviews. The outcome of my thesis is the description of the radicalization phenomenon, its specifics in Czech Republic, possible causes and risk factors,...
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The Demands of the Profession Prison Officer with a Focus on Coping with Stress
Hájková, Kristína ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Rymeš, Milan (referee)
The Diploma thesis deals with the issue of stress and load at the prison officers. In the theoretical part are described the stress and load concepts, we deal with the coping of the load situations, the issue of load and stress in the work environment and specifically in the group of the prison officers too. The aim of the Diploma's thesis is to map the specifics in coping with stress in this group of the people. For this purpose were used three questionnaires - SVF 78, OSI-R and a self-construction questionnaire. The collected data are statistically analyzed and the obtained results are subsequently interpreted. The work output are the recommendations for the practice that could help with the elimination of the most common stress sources, the prison officers faced at work. Key words: load, stress, coping, prison officers
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Emotional intelligence and possibilities of its recognition and application
Maršálek, Jan ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
The aim of the theorethical part of the thesis is to describe basic charac- teristics of concept of the emotional intelligence. The thesis summarizes two main theoretical approaches to EI: Mayer, Salovey et al. (1997) and Goleman (2000, 2011). Several currently used EI measurement methods are introduced, along with some of the principal reservations against the EI measurement as such. Practical applications of emotional intelligence along with theoretical possibilities of further development of EI are also briefly discussed. The empirical part summarizes the findings of combined quantitative- qualitative research realized in a sample of scout leaders. Using MSCEIT (Mayer et al., 2012), the research revealed that the scout leaders reached significantly lower EQ score in general EI, in Strategical EI branch and in subscales Using emotions and Understanding emotions. Reversely, they achieved significantly higher EQ score in subscale Managing emotions. The outputs of the qualitative enquiry are in direct contradiction to the quantitative outputs; the respondents agreed consentaneously that the scout education improved their emotional matureness, they also provided many particular examples and links between scouting and the develop- ment of the emotional intelligence. Possible explanations for this contrast...
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Effective Treatment of Violent Offenders with Personality Disorder wihin the Penitentiary Custody
Jiřička, Václav ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee) ; Sochůrek, Jan (referee)
This paper addresses the question of whether individual delinquent behaviour, or criminogenic risks that lead to it, can be reduced for convicted violence offenders with personality disorder, using the newly developed offence-oriented therapeutic program TERČ ("TARGET"). If so, how will these changes manifest in the recidivism rate, and how they will reflect the personality characteristics of inmates. TARGET was first systematically applied within a special treatment unit for prisoners with mental and behavioral disorders in Liberec Remand Prison in 2008. It is based on selected elements of the Ambulant intensive program (AIP) from Switzerland. A total of 100 convicts were entered TARGET from 2008 to 2015. 65 individuals completed the program successfully, and 57 were released again. The already released graduates of TARGET re-offended within 12 months in 10.4%. Of all admitted TARGET participants, a total of 30.2% either relapsed or failed during the program since 2009. Graduates showed positive, statistically significant changes in the monitored areas of life satisfaction, emotional stability, insight, self-control and aggression, while on scales representing personality disorder no positive, statistically significant effect was observed. For later re-offending prisoners, the changes were...
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Psychological context of motivation for change in convicts under the "Get a job" resocialization program
Šípová, Emilie ; Gillernová, Ilona (advisor) ; Spurný, Joža (referee) ; Boukalová, Hedvika (referee)
The dissertation thesis is focused on exploring the psychological context of motivation for change in adult convicted men who participated in and completed the motivational resocialization program named "Get a job". In the first part, selected theoretical knowledge is presented. Introductory chapters (Ch. 1-3) deal with the issue of social control, context of motivation for change in the offender as well as the motivational factors in the penitentiary environment. Subsequently, a system of probation and rehabilitation programs in the Czech Republic and risk factors affecting the process of prison rehabilitation are described. The next two chapters (Ch. 4-5) capture the development of view of penitentiary intervention, provide an overview of therapeutic approaches in rehabilitation, and contain a discussion of the possibilities of verifying the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs. The second part focuses on the description of the "Get a job" rehabilitation program. Here, basic information on the implementation of the program (Ch. 6) is presented together with individual topics including the content, tutoring work specifics and examples of specific work done by prisoners (Ch. 7). The third part includes an empirical investigation and presentation of the obtained results. The introductory...
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Aggression, hostility and its influence on interpretation of social situations
Kunšta, Cyril ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Čáp, David (referee)
Goal of a master thesis was to explore connection between aggression and interpretation of ambiguous social situations. In theoretical part of thesis author described theories of aggression, he was dealing with sources of aggression and also with criminal aggression with an overlap to typology of violent offenders. Author also described the problematic of ambiguous social situations and phenomena connected with it. In empirical part of thesis the main goal was to explore interconnection between aggression and interpretation of ambiguous social situations; and to compare group of inmates convicted for committing a violent crimes (n=30) with comparison group (n=30) in external aggression, understanding of ambiguous social situations and perceived social worth. For the purpose of exploring ambiguous social situations, methods DSS and SIP-AEQ were used. For exploring of external aggression were used Rosenzweig's PFT and for perceived social worth the SWS method. Two of four hypotheses were confirmed.
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