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The Reception of Narcotics by British Scientists and Society in the First Half of the 19th Century
Michlová, Marie ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyzes how the British society and scientists perceived the narcotics in the Great Britain during the first half of the 19th century. Numerous sources (including the period medical books, popular magazines, fiction, and letters) were used for this work. The aim was to compare how the people of different professions, ages, education, or rank perceived the narcotics and what had influenced their opinions. There are also several chapters about the physicians and their reception of narcotics, travelers and itineraries, the Opium Wars, animals, and one detailed study about Sir Walter Scott's family.
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Speciální výcvik psů pro vyhledávání narkotik a porovnání využitelnosti různých plemen psů v praxi
TUČKOVÁ, Hana
This bachelor thesis deals with the special drug detection dogs training and compares various dog breeds. According to the current conditions of Czech and foreign criminalistic odorology this criminalistic technique which uses olfaction of specially trained detection dogs is classified amongst the modern techniques today. The theoretical part describes the origin and the development of the domestic dog, pursued dog breeds, criminalistic odorology, special detection dogs training, dog's sense of smell from the anatomical and physiological point of view, dog handler's job, finding and distinguishing of various odors and general knowledge of odor and scent trails. The practical part evaluates which of the pursued dog breeds is the most effective, the most used and the most successful one in practice. The success rate of dogs according to their age, sex and the active period of service was also found out in the practical part. It was evaluated to what extend does the dogs' training frequency affect the success rate and which method of narcotics detection is preferred. All the data were collected by means of a questionnaire study. It was found out that the most used dog breed for narcotics detection is the German Shepherd, the second most used breed is Belgian Malinois. Of all pursued dogs (74) there were 34 German Shepherds whose success rate was 90,9 % and 23 Belgian Malinois whose success rate was 72, 99 %. It was found out that in 75 % the dogs are better in detecting plant-based drugs such as marijuana/hashish, cocaine, opium, some kinds of poppy seeds, tobacco, nicotine etc. The recommended dog gender is a male dog, the best performance can be expected with 5-6 years old dogs (3-4 years of active service). If the dogs are expected to carry out excellent performances, the training frequency must be adjusted to 7 times a week and the dog must be trained only in one discipline, in this case it is the narcotics detection.
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Mexican Drug War
Jančík, Jan ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Svitková, Katarína (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis is focused on description of situation which occurred after presidential elections in Mexico in 2006 when newly elected president Felipe Calderón launched massive operation targeted on eradicating drug cartels using both police and military capacities. This operation however meant huge upheaval and rise of violence caused not only by clashes of cartels with government but also by fights among warring cartels struggling for power and territory. The main aim of this thesis is to provide basic summary of this six years era considering all the main players, their territories and shifting of power and also to find out if the surging death rate after the year 2006 was primarily caused by Calderón's decision to deploy armed forces to fight drug cartels.
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Unintended consequences of drug prohibition: How does the drug abuse start?
Džmuráň, Daniel ; Schwarz, Jiří (advisor) ; Mikolášek, Jakub (referee)
Drug abuse is a major contemporary issue that draws attention of scientists as well as of the general public. Attitudes towards drug prohibition, however, differ greatly. On the one hand, the so called prohibitionists emphasize that each country needs to fight drug abuse. Their critics, on the other hand, argue that this approach constitutes baseless interfererence with the free market and personal freedom. In addition, oponents of drug prohibition point out to the various unintended consequences that the prohibition brings along. Author of this text pays a special attention to the concept of these consequences and, as a result, gives a detailed overview of existing research on unintended consequences in the context of drug prohibition. The main goal of this text is to contribute into the discussion on drug prohibition by conducting a specific empirical research that discloses one of the negative consequences of the prohibition - the illegal black market. Being a direct effect of the drug prohibition, the black market increases the availability of drugs to teenagers. The validity of this effect was confirmed by data obtained by questionnaires from a sample of Prague drug users. The reason is that the data shows that the entrance into the black market for teenagers is enabled by their immediate...
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The Reception of Narcotics by British Scientists and Society in the First Half of the 19th Century
Michlová, Marie ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyzes how the British society and scientists perceived the narcotics in the Great Britain during the first half of the 19th century. Numerous sources (including the period medical books, popular magazines, fiction, and letters) were used for this work. The aim was to compare how the people of different professions, ages, education, or rank perceived the narcotics and what had influenced their opinions. There are also several chapters about the physicians and their reception of narcotics, travelers and itineraries, the Opium Wars, animals, and one detailed study about Sir Walter Scott's family.
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Mexican drug war and possibilities of its solution
Krausová, Irena ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Jeníčková, Martina (referee)
The drug war in Mexico is a theme of this bachelor's work; this war has fully escalated after Felipe Calderón took president office in 2006. The very object of this work is to suggest and judge possible schemes of conflict solving. The work summarizes brief history related to origin and following development of narcomafia in Mexico. Further, it characterizes most influential drug organizations in the country and their influence on Mexican inhabitants is stated too. The most frequent crimes, which have been committed by drug gangs in recent years, are mentioned as well. The summary of measures adopted in a fight against mafia by federal government and president follows. The United States support is not forgotten either. In conclusion, probable variants of conflict solving are expressed on the basis of analyzed information.
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