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Význam věznice ve Světlé nad Sázavou na život ve městě
Tvrdá, Aneta
The presented bachelor's thesis deals with the significance of the prison in Světlá nad Sázavou for life in the city. In the theoretical anchoring of the work, a literature search is prepared on the topic of the influence of the prison on life in the city, the specifics of the women's prison, safety in the prison and its surroundings, and a regional analysis of the municipality of Světlá nad Sázavou. The next part of the work is mainly devoted to the results of the questionnaire survey, which took place with the inhabitants of the village and interviews with the relevant actors of the village. Based on the results of the questionnaires and interviews, it is evaluated that the prison has a neutral to slightly positive effect on the life of the inhabitants of the city.
Everyday life of (female) prisoners in the Monastery of Řepy in the 1930s and 1940s
Dopitová, Michaela ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Hladík, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide insight into the lifes and stories of female prisoners kept in the convent of Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo in Prague's Řepy, at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s. The thesis consists of analysis of the prisoners, based on their nationality, social position, type of crime, length of sentence, and religion. Another focus is on the aims of the prison, educational means applied on women, and the respect of the prisoners to these means and the staff as such. The thesis describes everyday life in the convent, including activities done by the prisoners. It follows the behavior of the residents, their mutual relationships, the hierarchy between the women and the process of dealing with each other.
Fallen Women: Gender Imaging of Women in the Institution of Prison in Czech/Czechoslovak Film Production
Moravuszová, Klára ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
The thesis deals with the construction of pictures of women who experienced with prison institution represented through films. From a gender perspective, the thesis analyzes how these structures are depicted and reflected as a part of the characters' stories in selected Czech and Czechoslovak films. The thesis consists of five parts. The first part introduces the theoretical background, then the second part focuses on the topic of gender and prison, or better said on the prison service in the Czech Republic. Part of this specification includes also the topic of power and women's crime; a large part is devoted also to gender-normative ideas in the institution of prison and the depiction of these topics in media (film). The fourth empirical part deals with methodological bases and the research methodology itself. The last fifth part presents the research and its results. The films reproduce the gender normative images of women thereby constantly anchoring them or disproving the concrete ideas about what the "right" and "desirable" women should be in order to be accepted in society. Linking women and the restrictive establishment of prison is one of the taboo-themed topics across the whole society. The thesis investigates how this topic is presented to the Czech and Czechoslovak film audience. Key...
Woman as a Perpetrator of Murder
Hrabětová, Jaroslava ; Buriánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Čírtková, Ludmila (referee) ; Nedbálková, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis is a descriptive study of female perpetrators of murder as viewed from the individual level, primarily focusing on the characteristics of the offender which could affect the murder, and the context of the murderous act. Following a theoretical examination, the empirical section presents the results of research in women's prison using an integrated research methodology of qualitative but also quantitative techniques of data collection and interpretation. The primary research analyzed prison's documents about murderers with the research sample consisting of all imprisoned women ie half of all incarcerated women in the Czech Republic. In-depth interviews were carried out with predominantly perpetrators of intimate homicides; other data collection techniques were used. The data detected the forms of murderous behavior of women, the typology of murder by motivation, mapping the social situation of female convicts in prison, selected attitudes of homicide offenders including the analysis of family murders. The results indicated that the prototype of homicides committed by women are intimate murders that fall within the largest group of intrafamily murder. The most common cause is a partner homicide conflict situations, long-term domestic violence and excessive alcohol consumption for both...
Everyday life of (female) prisoners in the Monastery of Řepy in the 1930s and 1940s
Dopitová, Michaela ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor) ; Hladík, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide insight into the lifes and stories of female prisoners kept in the convent of Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo in Prague's Řepy, at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s. The thesis consists of analysis of the prisoners, based on their nationality, social position, type of crime, length of sentence, and religion. Another focus is on the aims of the prison, educational means applied on women, and the respect of the prisoners to these means and the staff as such. The thesis describes everyday life in the convent, including activities done by the prisoners. It follows the behavior of the residents, their mutual relationships, the hierarchy between the women and the process of dealing with each other.

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