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Attitudes of the Czech public towards migration and international migrants
Šimková, Tereza ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Marešová, Jarmila (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to analyze the attitudes of Czech society towards migration and international migrants in the context of the migration crisis between 2014, 2015 and 2017. The basic theoretical premises are mainly based on the theory of group threats, the theory of social identity, the contact hypothesis and socio-demographic characteristics. Using the analysis of the preferences of the Czech public towards individual immigration groups, the work will reveal changes in respondents' likes and dislikes. The conclusion will focus on the behavior of the respondents in the crisis and analyze which groups of respondents have changed their sympathies and antipathies towards individual migration groups and evaluate the conditional factors that influenced the attitudes of the respondents. The thesis draws on data from nationwide research of the Center for Public Opinion Research of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. commissioned by the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development of Charles University in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Key words International migration, public attitudes, migration crisis, sympathy and antipathy, cultural toleration, Czechia.
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Public attitudes towards European integration in the Czech Republic
Chytrá, Valérie ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Soukup, Petr (referee)
The European integration project started as a primarily economic project of political elites. Over time, it developed to deal with political and cultural issues and became an object of interest for the European general public. We recognize various factors that are connected to citizens' support towards European integration which reflect the issues that European integration brings together. Research commonly distinguishes three lines of explanation for public attitudes towards European integration. In this thesis, we are asking which factors are associated with support towards European integration in the Czech Republic. The regression analysis is based on European Social Survey data from 2020. The results show that support for European integration in the Czech Republic is recently connected the most to cultural factors which are support for immigration and the strength of national and European identity. Fairly strong predictors are also political factors such as trust in domestic political institutions and satisfaction with democracy. To a lesser extent but still significant are also economic factors, specifically evaluation of personal financial situation and national economic situation. Overall, the support is linked more strongly to issues that tend to be more stable over time, rather than to...
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Lay Public awareness of the Probation and Mediation Service
HUPÁKOVÁ, Markéta
Together with the reform of the criminal justice it was necessary to form a complex system of activities concerning the realization and effective usage of the introduced system of alternative punishments and deviations in criminal proceedings. On the basis of this requirement the institution of the Probation and Mediation Service (PMS) of the Czech Republic was established in 2001. The mission of the PMS is to create conditions for alternative punishments use in the course of the criminal proceedings and to ensure the effective execution of alternative punishments. For this purpose this service carries out the probation and mediation and participates in settlement of disputes between the accused and accusers and makes efforts to appease conflict situations and to restore the respect for rules of law. The integral part of the PMS mission is prevention and reducing the risk of the recurrence of criminal activity. The objective of the thesis is to examine the real public awareness of the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic, to give account of the lay public attitudes to the institution of alternative punishments. The thesis also studies opinions of alternative punishments in professionals who cooperate with the Probation and Mediation Service. Before the research the following hypotheses were stated: H I: The awareness of the lay public of the Probation and Mediation Service is low. Partial H I: The lay public gets information mostly through the television broadcasting. H II: The cooperation of professionals with the Probation and Mediation Service influences the attitude to alternative punishments, which become more acceptable to be imposed. To verify the hypotheses the quantitative research, the questionnaire method was used. I made up standardised questionnaires with a series of 15 questions. The first research set was composed of the lay public. 100 persons aged 20 {--} 60 years were chosen at random. The other research set comprised staff members of subjects cooperating with the Probation and Mediation Service of the Police of the Czech Republic, of local and municipal authorities, of the Employment Office, of the prison system. 50 persons were addressed on the whole. The results show that the H I as well as the partial H I, relating to the awareness of the lay public of the Probation and Mediation Service, were confirmed. The hypothesis II, focused on attitudes of professionals cooperating with the PMS to alternative punishments, was rejected.
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