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The psychological aspects of hostage-taking
Straka, Karel ; Boukalová, Hedvika (advisor) ; Trojanová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis consists of a theoretical part, followed by research design. In the theoretical part, hostage-taking and its historical development is defined at first. Further, the main attention is paid to the psychological aspects of this phenomenon. Types of perpetrators' motivation, available typologies and methods of incident planning are described. This is followed by explanation of the crisis negotiation, personality dispositions of negotiators, psychologist's role in the negotiations and the impact of media on negotiations. Attention is then shifted to the victims of hostage-taking. The thesis describes the dynamics of their experience, the Stockholm syndrome and the impact of incidents on victims. Research design aims to create and verify the appropriateness of a screening method for estimating the risk of developing post-traumatic stress in victims of hostage-taking.
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The psychological, healthy, social and law aspekt of home violence
BOLHOVÁ, Radka
Abstract Thesis title: Psychological, Health, Social and Legal Aspects of Domestic Violence The theoretical section of my thesis deals with clarifying the term domestic violence as a socio-pathological phenomenon in our society. This section brings the readers a more detailed professional explanation and gives them a closer approach to the issue. In my thesis the forms of domestic violence are examined, the ways of committing domestic violence are described, who is the offender and who becomes the victim is discussed. Also, domestic violence in terms of its impact on the victim, its social dangerousness as a socially pathological phenomenon and the possible health, social and psychological impacts on the victim are dealt with. The practical section of the thesis is the quantitative research, where the interviewing method was applied, using the technique of questionnaires distributed to respondents in the target groups of people, see the target file. The practical section is focused on domestic violence awareness in a chosen sample of respondents in České Budějovice, the frequency of domestic violence occurrence in the selected region, forms and ways of committing and possible preventive measures against domestic violence. In conclusion inclu des suggestions for preventive measures and their possibilities in action against domestic violence, and forits early detection prevention and detection of offenders in long-term impact on the victim or victims, using all legal means, whichenables the Czech legal order.
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