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Comparison of criminal behaviour development in the CR with trends in rich countries
Pokorný, Petr ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Polák, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores crime development in rich countries and compares it with crime development in the Czech Republic. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to statistically verify thoughts discussed in The Economist magazine about the downward trend in crime development in rich countries. In the first part of the thesis, terms related to crime are defined. Subsequently, rich countries are deter- mined. In the second part, the crime development in the rich countries is explored through a fixed effect model estimation of panel data. In the third part, crime de- velopment in the Czech Republic is analyzed by using a simple regression model and an autoregressive model. In the final part of the bachelor thesis, an econometric model analyzes factors that generally affect crime, especially wealth of countries. The arguments about the downward trend in crime development in rich countries are supported by statistical examination. 1
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Criminality in the Czech Repulic
Doležalová, Barbora ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Palanská, Tereza (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze factors influencing crime rate in the Czech Republic. From time immemorial, crime rate has been a part of our society and its impacts do not influence only its victims but the whole economy as well. The main contribution of this thesis is an econometric analysis of the most recent panel data of Czech counties from 2010 to 2017. Thanks to this dataset we identified factors and their significances. For more accurate results we also examined factors influencing particular crimes - robbery, burglary, rape and murder. By analysis we found out that unemployment rate is significant factor, however, this factor has negative relationship with crime rate. This relationship can be described that by increasing unemployment rate people more care about their belongings, hence, it is harder for criminals to commit a crime. Positive and significant relationship was found between unemployment and robbery. Furthermore, results show that the percentage of foreigners is positively significant to burglary and rape. Therefore, it is important to focus on integration of foreigners into our society. Moreover, income inequality is positively significant in a rape model and the deterrence is positively significant as well in a crime rate model.
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Analysis of Negative Political and Security Impacts of Asylum Seekers Hosting in the European Union Member States
Vargová, Martina ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis Analysis of Negative Political and Security Impacts of Asylum Seekers Hosting in the European Union Member States reflects upon the increasing numbers of asylum seekers arriving at the shores of the European Union and therewith associated potential negative political and security impact of their hosting. The aim of the thesis is to assess whether any negative impact of asylum seekers hosting can be observed within three areas of concern identified as a) crime rate, b) terrorism rate and c) political tension between the host states and whether higher hosting performance of the member states produces a more negative impact. In order to fulfil the aim of the thesis, a quantitative ordinary least squares linear regression analysis followed by a qualitative approach is conducted. The analysis processes data on the number of asylum seekers arriving in each member state available via United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees database, the crime rate data available via Eurostat and the terrorism rate data available via Global Terrorism Database administered by University of Maryland. Two levels of analysis are present, a generalized level focusing on four categories of member states based on their per capita hosting performance and an individual level of analysis focusing on individual...
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Comparison of criminal behaviour development in the CR with trends in rich countries
Pokorný, Petr ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Polák, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores crime development in rich countries and compares it with crime development in the Czech Republic. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to statistically verify thoughts discussed in The Economist magazine about the downward trend in crime development in rich countries. In the first part of the thesis, terms related to crime are defined. Subsequently, rich countries are deter- mined. In the second part, the crime development in the rich countries is explored through a fixed effect model estimation of panel data. In the third part, crime de- velopment in the Czech Republic is analyzed by using a simple regression model and an autoregressive model. In the final part of the bachelor thesis, an econometric model analyzes factors that generally affect crime, especially wealth of countries. The arguments about the downward trend in crime development in rich countries are supported by statistical examination. 1
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Crime Rate and the Functioning of the Police Forces in London in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Kugler, Michal ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
The author in the bachelor thesis focused on a analysis of crime underworld and functioning of police forces in London in time of Queen Victoria. He attempted on the basis of narrative sources to analyze situation in metropolis, activities and methods of criminal elements and members of Metropolitan Police. He introduced several examples of criminal acting and police service operations in Victorian London. The bachelor thesis is divided into four parts; in the first part the author focused shortly on the political, economical and social history starting with a succession of English throne by Queen Victoria in 1837. The second part is focused on City of London, urbanization and life of the inhabitans. The third part is oriented on analysis of criminals and their motives for comitting crimes. In the last part author discussed origins and dissemination of Metropolitan Police. The author primarily worked with narrative sources and English historical literature.
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Special Department as Part of Professional Treatment of Convicts.
ČERVENÝ, Zbyněk
The thesis deals with special treatment of convicts, in particular a special programme of treatment in a special department. The thesis has two parts the theoretical one and the empirical one. The theoretical part defines basic notions connected with education, family, free time, pathological phenomena in society, crime. They are presented on the basis of scientific resources. Next, special treatment of convicts in a special department is described. The convicts suffer from a behaviour disorder caused by abuse of psychotropic drugs. The main goal of the empirical research was to describe, compare and analyse the opinions of the convicts on the relation between crime and family life, free time activities and also the therapeutic programme of the special department.
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Current trends in crime in the Czech Republic
BLÁHOVÁ, Radka
After 1989, our society as a whole underwent many changes: our proprietary relati-ons as well as our value system changed, a new social phenomenon unemployment emerged, and the crime rate in the Czech Republic went up rapidly. The aim of this un-dergraduate thesis is to map current trends in the development of crime in the Czech Republic. I have therefore focused on studying the effects of unemployment on the dy-namics of crime in selected regions of the Czech Republic. The main objective of my thesis is to test the causality between unemployment and crime, as well as as a partial goal to verify the impact of long-term unemployment on the crime rate in general. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and empiric part. In the theoretical part, I concentrated on defining the concept of criminality as such, and on examining the etio-logy of crime and its structure. The empiric part focuses on the testing of hypotheses. The basic hypothesis presumes that employment has a direct effect on crime rate, main-taining as a working hypothesis that the dynamics of general crime rate correspond to the development of long-term unemployment. During my work on the thesis, I used the quantitative research strategy, the statistical method, and secondary analysis of do-cuments as the data collection technique. I collected the relevant data from two basic sources, namely: data on labor and social trends from the Statistical Yearbooks that the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs published in the years of 2005 to 2014 and data from the public database of the Czech Statistical Office, where the CSO publishes data on all crimes recorded and identified. My choice of data was purposeful in that I divided the data into four basic sets, namely: annual reviews of the average number of job applicants; the number of job applicants unemployed longer than 12 months (status as of December 31 of the given calendar year); total crime rate and general crime rate from 2005 to 2014 in all the regions of the Czech Republic and Prague; and then the same for all districts in the Vysočina Region, South Bohemian Region, South Moravian Region during the years of 2005 - 2014. The results of my research did not prove a direct linear relation between crime dy-namics and total unemployment, hence my basic hypothesis has not been confirmed. The second area of my research did confirm that long-term unemployment impacts on the general crime rate in the given regions. Thus, the results of my work proved the existence of a link between long-term unemployment and crime rate. The study could therefore be used as support material when devising crime prevention programs on local or regional level. Simultaneously, however, I maintain that delinquency cannot be unambiguously associated with pro-blems arising from low social status.
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Analysis of impact of the 2013 presidential amnesty on crime rates
Krejsa, Jiří ; Potužák, Pavel (advisor) ; Babin, Jan (referee)
In this thesis I analyze the impact of the 2013 presidential amnesty on crime rate. Using difference-in-differences estimates I evaluate its impact on crime rates in Czech Republic in comparison with Slovak Republic. These estimates are based on a balanced panel of data from 58 months. Based on my specification of model I estimate that the average effect on rate of both larceny and burglary is an increase by 6.63 % and no statistically significant effect on violent crime. Therefore I was able to confirm my hypothesis that non-random selection of pardoned prisoners would result in selective impact on the crime rates. I also discuss possible sources of bias of my estimates.
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Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Crime on Property Prices in Prague
Šenfeld, Filip ; Komrska, Martin (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
This paper examines the impact of crime on the price of apartments in Prague via the method of hedonic prices. The main objective is to quantify this impact and evaluate how significant factor is the crime rate in the property market. Regression analysis brought paradoxical results. Regression parameters suggest, ceteris paribus, increase in prices of apartments depending on the increase in the index crime. Specifically, according to the regression parameter in the basic model, an increase in crime index by 1% increases housing prices by an average of 0.15 %. The inclusion of various types of crime into the model instead of the total crime and the use of instrumental variables extend the model for a more detailed analysis. The hypothesis of the negative impact of crime on the price of apartments is not on the basis of this analysis confirmed.
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An analysis of crime in Prague in 2014 and its impact on economy
Dragounová, Jana ; Barák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štípek, Vladimír (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is the mapping of crime in the capital city of Prague in 2014 and its impact on economy of stakeholders. The theoretical part defines the concept of crime, describes factors which increase the probability of occurrence and development of crime and its economic consequences. In addition to this, some important theories dealing with crime and methods by which crime is reported are mentioned. Considerable attention is paid to the security situation in the Czech Republic in 2014. In the practical part, an analysis of expenditure on security is carried out. Preventive policy of Prague is also discussed and grant and subsidy programs, which are the source of its funding, are analyzed. Moreover, the criminality in Prague is analyzed not only globally, but also in the territory of Prague 1, 5 and 11 which show an increased incidence of crime.
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