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Fights of Roma Teenagers Cultural Models of Violence
Trachtová, Zuzana ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
This thesis focuses on the meaning of violence within groups of Roma youth. It discusses questions regarding how they understand, verbalise and reflect on violence. Answers to these questions presented in the work are based on long-term communication with Roma teenagers visiting a low-threshold club, where I worked. Afterwards, the research was carried out outside the club, in their private space and also in a boxing club. The Roma teenagers formed a fixed group, identifying themselves with a particular Prague district. The dialogues revealed an interesting topic of "fights" among Roma groups coming from different Prague districts. The aim of the thesis is to provide answers to the questions what teenagers are actually saying when they are talking about "fighting" one another, how they assess such behaviour and what meanings it carries for them. The theoretical part presents definitional frameworks concerning the term of violence as well as the concept of physical violence appearing in different socio-scientific contexts. In literature, violence is often referred to in connection with young people, gender, masculinity, social exclusion and honour. Furthermore, this part concentrates on defining the Roma minority and outlining their situation in Prague and the Czech Republic. The theoretical and...
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The delinquency of teenagers in dependence on the social and educational environment within family
POLÁČEK, Martin
The author´goal of this work is to show the environment in which the child grows, the negative effects of this environment leading the child to delinquency and considers certain factors of education in the contemporary family, which should reduce a negative influence of this environment on child, and how these factors should work in the family. In theoretical part of my work there will be discussed terms like marriage and family, divorce, single-parent family and the resulting negative influences on young people in 21st century, manifested mainly in the form of property and vice youth crime. In the practical part of the work there will be drawn from actual cases recorded in files of the Department of social and legal protection of children and the written materials of the Police Czech republic.
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