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Crime and its perception in urban environment
Jíchová, Jana ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Šiftová, Jana (referee) ; Michálek, Anton (referee)
Jana Jíchová: Crime and its Perception in Urban Environment ABSTRACT Crime is an important social phenomenon that affects many aspects of the functioning of society and the life of every person. It also represents an important interdisciplinary topic that deals with a number of disciplines, including geography. Logically, there is a thematic and methodological overlap; each of the sciences emphasize on different aspects of crime, using various methods and research approaches, interpretations, and therefore contributes to the knowledge of crime differently. The importance of geography is particularly in the enrichment of the crime research on spatial dimension and contributes to its cognition through analysis of the distribution of crime and studies of perception of crime. Although this type of studies is well established in Western crime research, in the Czech geography is paid to them only little attention. This doctoral thesis introduces geography of crime in the Czech context, discusses its theoretical and methodological developments and its applicability and application in our cities.. More emphasis is put on the concept of fear of crime, which constitutes an essential component of feeling of safety affecting daily life, the use of urban space and spatial mobility of individuals. Better understanding of...
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Sociospatial Aspects of Homelessness - Case Study of Central Smíchov
Hruška, Martin ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Jíchová, Jana (referee)
The study of life of various groups of population has become in today's society increasingly important. Society in its complexity is being continously differentiated and offers many questions not only of mainstream society, but also other, less studied groups around us. This bachelor thesis aims to contribute to research in daily life of specific socially deprivated population group. Using interviews with direct and another key actors will seek to identify and objective evaluate spacial relations and spacial behavior of homeless population in the central part of Prague 5 - Smíchov. Presents also both their social characteristics and social relations with their neighborhood, including other actors. It tries to put life and motivations of the people on the street in a social context. Keywords: homelessness - spacial aspects - social aspects - everyday life - central Smíchov
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Crime and its perception in urban environment
Jíchová, Jana
Jana Jíchová: Crime and its Perception in Urban Environment ABSTRACT Crime is an important social phenomenon that affects many aspects of the functioning of society and the life of every person. It also represents an important interdisciplinary topic that deals with a number of disciplines, including geography. Logically, there is a thematic and methodological overlap; each of the sciences emphasize on different aspects of crime, using various methods and research approaches, interpretations, and therefore contributes to the knowledge of crime differently. The importance of geography is particularly in the enrichment of the crime research on spatial dimension and contributes to its cognition through analysis of the distribution of crime and studies of perception of crime. Although this type of studies is well established in Western crime research, in the Czech geography is paid to them only little attention. This doctoral thesis introduces geography of crime in the Czech context, discusses its theoretical and methodological developments and its applicability and application in our cities.. More emphasis is put on the concept of fear of crime, which constitutes an essential component of feeling of safety affecting daily life, the use of urban space and spatial mobility of individuals. Better understanding of...
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Phenomenon of Forest Kindergarten: Case Study - Prague 6
Vostradovská, Barbora ; Jíchová, Jana (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Lucie (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with forest kindergartens, which represent an alternative to traditional kindergartens and can be seen as a new institutional phenomenon in pre-school education. The topic is grounded in the theoretical framework of time geography and mobility, with emphasis on the concept of constraints. Case study is carried out in the city district of Prague 6 compares the users (parents) of forest kindergartens and traditional kindergartens. It monitors the diversity of spatial daily mobility - commuting and different socio-demographic characteristics of users in both types of institutions. During field research the techniques used for data collection were semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. This case study confirmed differences between users, mainly in the willingness to commute further and their relationship to the environment. Keywords: forest kindergarten - kindergarten - commuting - users - Prague 6
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The Influence of Urban Closed Circuit TV on Crime: a Case Study of Palmovka
Vávra, Michal ; Jíchová, Jana (advisor) ; Temelová, Jana (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the effectiveness of open street closed circuit television (CCTV) in reducing crime, as installed in Palmovka, Prague. The main aim is to describe and evaluate the effectiveness of CCTV in a place with increased incidence of illegal activity (disturbing public order and the commitment of certain crimes). The theses furthermore evaluates the preventive effect of CCTV devices and their contribution to the detection of illegal activity by police authorities. To obtain the results, a method of semi-structured interviews with local police officers and analysis of police crime data was used. The research showed that after installing CCTV the number of crimes decreased, but the expectations of the general preventive effect were not met. The main merit for the reduction in crime may be attributed to other established security measures. Nevertheless, these systems have proved very helpful in improving investigation of crime and taken records serve as useful evidence in criminal proceedings. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Crime in Suburbs: Case Study in the Municipality Sulice
Hrbková, Jana ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Jíchová, Jana (referee)
The aim of this work is to determine the perception of crime and feeling of security people who live in the new development in the village Sulice, which is located in suburb of Prague. In this village happened in the past and even now there is a large extent to the process of suburbanization. During the last twenty one years they have moved in to the family home nearly a thousand new residents. And therefore is an option that this suburban location is an attractive target for the perpetrators of property crime. In the village Sulice structured interviews were conducted with local residents and the mayor and deputy mayor. Based on structured interviews, practical part of the thesis is made. Research aims to determine what type of crime, people in the village Sulice most worried about and why. The work focuses on the security measures taken against the perpetrators. The results showed that almost all of respondents feel safe in the village, although half of all respondents had a negative experience with a local crime. Respondents are most worried about property crime. The most effective security measures are dogs and mainly supervision of family members and neighbours. Keywords: Suburbium, property crime, a feeling of safety, experience with crime, protective security measures
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Crime in the housing estate Portyč in Písek from the perspective of the majority and Romanies population
Slancová, Jana ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Jíchová, Jana (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with the research of crime and safety in the housing estate Portyč in Písek, where in addition to the majority population there is a large Romanies minority. The aim of bachelor thesis is to determine safety and crime of the housing estate and how it is perceived by these two different groups of inhabitants and the aim is also to find out of what crimes are people afraid of the most. The emphasis is given on comparison of thoughts of these two groups. There is also the endeavour to establish the arguments which accompany to higher number of crime in the housing estate. To obtaining of these information was used the method of questionnaire investigation and an interview. The results showed that majority population feels more in danger than Romanies. The reason for the anxiety is Romanies minority. They are afraid the most of violent and property crime. Romanies sees the problem in living together with the majority population and especially the women are afraid of racist attacks.
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Citizen Participation in Process of the City Planning: the Case Regeneration of Estate in Jičín
Křepelková, Hana ; Jíchová, Jana (referee) ; Temelová, Jana (advisor)
The thesis deals with public participation in project planning at the local level. In the thesis there are described the participants, defined various types of participation, the domination factors that affect measure of participation, and also it's advantages and disadvantages are mentioned there. The theoretic process of public the participation is described step by step. The practical part of thesis is focused on the conditions of public participacipation in the city Ji ín, concretely on the case of the the state's regeneration project. The process of involving the citizens into the project is investigated on the basis of the interviews with city clerks and by studying of official documents. The citizens'atitiude is stated by questionnaires. It seems that city Ji ín tries to get citizens involved in the projects and that estate's regeneration project cames out from the opinion of citizens. Citizens are mostly satisfied with estate's regeneration, but not all of them's particular comments are answerd.
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Perception of fear in Žižkov and Jarov
Jíchová, Jana ; Temelová, Jana (advisor) ; Čermák, Daniel (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to discover how the inhabitants of Žižkov and Jarov perceive their place of residence in terms of the potentially risk places and safety. Following this aim the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used: questionnaire survey, interviews, statistical data analysis. The researches on fear of crime emphasize differentiation in the perception of fear by men and women and by various age groups, which is also reflected in this thesis. Further the focus is on identification of places which are often perceived as more hazardous and reasons which conduce to this perception. This research also tries to discover whether an overlap of places with higher incidence of crimes and localities which inhabitants perceive as the most hazardous exists. The thesis simultaneously brings closer the theme of fear and fear of crime, options to perceive living environment. The results proved that some localities, for example parks or deserted and deprived places, are perceived as hazardous. The research also pointed that women and some age groups strongly perceived the fear of crime and the overlap of places with higher incidence of crimes and localities perceived as dangerous exists. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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