ABSTRACT The topic of this diploma work is ``The operating family as the most effective prevention of the Child´s and Youth´s Criminality``. As the topic itself says, this work concentrates on a family as the most effective factor within the bounds of the prevention of child´s and youth´s criminality. The theoretical part of this diploma work contains the description of a family as an integral system, which has its roles, functions. It is also focused on disorders of these functions in view of child´s and youth´s criminality. The main stress is laid on emotional and socializational role. Author describes the phenomenon of criminality itself as well as the socially pathological effects, which can be tied in with the criminality. Important part of this work concentrates on prevention of criminality both in its general meaning and, mainly, prevention within the family too. In the end of this work there is survey of statistics of criminality, which is devided according to regions and districts. More attention is given to region of Karlovy Vary, which the practical part of the work is based on too. The practical part works with the case studies of ten youths, delinquents, who come from the region mentioned above. For better understanding there are graphs added, which highlight the effects with the biggest influence on criminality. In this part of diploma work the author proceeds to work with the theoretical facts given in the first part, including comperison of the criminality statistics. It was found out, that these young people mostly come from families with functional disorders. According to this we can say, that these families have bad influence on the possible future criminal behaviour of their children. The aim of this diploma work is to discuss the matter of well-operating families and families with functional disorders in view of child´s and youth´s criminality, and then give possible hypotheses. On the basis of the studied theory and author´s own research, there is a kind of `` Ten rules of bringing up children`` established, which can help all parents in the prevention of criminality of their children.

This thesis is basically an overview of juvenile deliquency development over the past years, centering on the Czech Republic, Southern Bohemia and the region of Jindrichuv Hradec. The thesis concentrates on mapping the causes of the most frequent kinds of juvenile deliquency in Jindrichuv Hradec. It takes into account all factors that have an impact on criminal behavior of youths. The research is based on 50 documents stored within the probation and mediation agency of Jindrichuv Hradec. The research concluded, that the main causes of youth deliquency are unorganized free time together with family problems. There's also a considerable influence from the peers. Taking these facts into account, the thesis goes on to outline preventive measures, mainly free time activities, improving legal awareness among the targeted group, teachers' education and strengthening cohesion within a family.

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Despite the number of studies conducted regarding violence amongst youth, there is still much to be learned. The present study was designed in an attempt to better understand the nature of delinquent adolescent behaviour. The main objectives of this study are as follows: to understand the pattern and distribution of delinquent behaviour, including violence, vandalism, and theft among Lethbridge, Alberta's high school population, to identify possible factors that may play a role in one's likelihood of engaging in such behaviours, and finally, to contribute to Micheal Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi's (G&H) 'General Theory of Crime' (1990) by reconceptuahzing the concept of self-control. The present study includes 182 youth from two Lethbridge public high schools. Of the 182 respondents, 84 are female, and 98 are male. The youth involved in this study range from 15 to 19 years of age. Through the use of a questionnaire, a number of key variables are addressed. These variables are: empathy, impulse control, social bonds, and their relationship with violence, theft, and vandalism. The results of this study show that empathy and impulse control are significant predictors of violence and vandalism, while impulsive behaviour was found to be the only statistically significant predictor of theft among the variables included in the multiple regression analysis. Although social bonds were hypothesized to be a major predictor of all three delinquent behaviours included in this study, the results did not support such an assumption. It is suggested that perhaps the concept of social bonds was inadequately measured for use in this study. Future research using a better measure of social bonds, may find it to be a significant predictor of violence, vandalism, and theft. / vii, 100 leaves ; 29 cm.

Based upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork in London, England, which incorporated nearly 200 interviews with gang members, gang associates, and police officers, among others, this thesis addresses three questions presently unresolved in the street gangs literature: What is the business of gangs? How are gangs organised? And how do gangs recruit? With regard the business of gangs, this thesis illustrates how recreation, crime, enterprise, and extra-legal governance represent sequential stages in the evolutionary cycle of London’s street gangs. Gang member testimony emphasises how gangs typically begin life as neighbourhood-based peer groups, but also how, in response to external threats and financial commitments, gangs grow to incorporate street-level drugs distribution businesses that very much resemble the multi-level marketing structure of direct-sales companies. People join gangs to make money, achieve status, and obtain protection. Gangs engage in turf wars, acquire violent resources, and develop hierarchical structures in order to maintain provision of these desirable goods and services. Gang organisation, in turn, becomes a function of gang business. To better understand the nature and extent of gang organisation, this thesis moves on to discuss the presence of subgroups, hierarchy and leadership, pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives, rules, responsibilities, and restrictions, and consequences for absconding within gangs. It further presents how, in order to convey reputation and achieve intimidation, gangs seek association with elements of popular culture that help promote their image. Finally, through the novel application of signalling theory to the gang recruitment process, this thesis demonstrates how gangs face a primary trust dilemma in their uncertainty over the quality of recruits. Given that none of the trust-warranting properties for gang membership can be readily discovered from observation, gangs look for observable signs correlated with these properties. Gangs face a secondary trust dilemma in their uncertainty over the reliability of signs because certain agents (e.g., police informants, rival gang members, and adventure-seekers) have incentives to mimic them. To overcome their informational asymmetry gangs thus screen for signs that are too costly for mimics to fake but affordable for the genuine article. The thesis concludes with a discussion of gang desistance and intervention in the context of escalating youth violence in London.

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Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal compreender quais elementos pautaram os projetos e as práticas das prisões femininas brasileiras, no final da década de 30 e início dos anos 40. Buscou-se verificar em que medida prescrições de pensamentos criminológicos em voga, como o Direito Penal Clássico que indicava a pena para expiação da culpa e via o crime como uma escolha do indivíduo e da Antropologia Criminal para quem o homem nascia delinquente e a pena deveria ser medida médica para curar criminosos estiveram presentes na caracterização da delinqüência feminina e no cotidiano dessas instituições. Foi por meio da leitura de documentos da época, entre eles periódicos como A Estrela e os Arquivos Penitenciários do Brasil, que foi possível recompor os argumentos e as metas que justificaram a criação dos estabelecimentos prisionais femininos no país, bem como identificar a quem eles estavam voltados. Conclui-se, ao final, que o sistema penitenciário feminino foi edificado de maneira bastante peculiar, mesclando preceitos das duas referidas escolas criminológicas e elementos morais religiosos, com o objetivo de devolver à sociedade boas mães e esposas, ou seja, mulheres livres dos vícios e das mazelas que as desviavam do caminho esperado. Neste sentido entendia-se que a criminalidade feminina, vista como um desvio do papel social que a mulher deveria cumprir, precisava ser contida e corrigida. Daí porque o formato escolhido para as primeiras prisões de mulheres no Brasil privilegiou o resgate de elementos valorados como sendo próprios do feminino e confiou a uma Congregação religiosa a missão de executá-lo. / This dissertation had as its main objective to understand which elements guided projects and practices of womens prisons in Brazil in the late 30s and early 40s. It sought to verify the extent to which criminological prescriptions, as the ones from Classical Criminal Law that said that penalties served to purge guilt and that crime was an individuals choice and from Criminal Anthropology for whom the Man was born as a delinquent and penalty should be a medical measure to cure law offenders were present in the understanding of female crime and the daily life of these institutions. By reading documents from that period, among them journals such as A Estrela and Arquivos Penitenciários do Brasil, it was possible to rebuild arguments and goals that were used to justify the foundation of womens prisons in the country, as well as identify for whom they were built for. It concludes that womens prison system were built in a very peculiar way, mixing components from the two above-mentioned criminological schools with religious and morals elements, aiming to give back to society good mothers and wives, that is, women free from the vices and illness that moved them away from their expected paths. In that sense, female criminality, seen as a deviation from the social role that women were supposed to perform, should be contained and corrected. That explains why a religious Congregation was responsible for running the first womens prisons in Brazil, which privileged the recovery of elements valued as attached to the feminine.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal compreender quais elementos pautaram os projetos e as práticas das prisões femininas brasileiras, no final da década de 30 e início dos anos 40. Buscou-se verificar em que medida prescrições de pensamentos criminológicos em voga, como o Direito Penal Clássico que indicava a pena para expiação da culpa e via o crime como uma escolha do indivíduo e da Antropologia Criminal para quem o homem nascia delinquente e a pena deveria ser medida médica para curar criminosos estiveram presentes na caracterização da delinqüência feminina e no cotidiano dessas instituições. Foi por meio da leitura de documentos da época, entre eles periódicos como A Estrela e os Arquivos Penitenciários do Brasil, que foi possível recompor os argumentos e as metas que justificaram a criação dos estabelecimentos prisionais femininos no país, bem como identificar a quem eles estavam voltados. Conclui-se, ao final, que o sistema penitenciário feminino foi edificado de maneira bastante peculiar, mesclando preceitos das duas referidas escolas criminológicas e elementos morais religiosos, com o objetivo de devolver à sociedade boas mães e esposas, ou seja, mulheres livres dos vícios e das mazelas que as desviavam do caminho esperado. Neste sentido entendia-se que a criminalidade feminina, vista como um desvio do papel social que a mulher deveria cumprir, precisava ser contida e corrigida. Daí porque o formato escolhido para as primeiras prisões de mulheres no Brasil privilegiou o resgate de elementos valorados como sendo próprios do feminino e confiou a uma Congregação religiosa a missão de executá-lo. / This dissertation had as its main objective to understand which elements guided projects and practices of womens prisons in Brazil in the late 30s and early 40s. It sought to verify the extent to which criminological prescriptions, as the ones from Classical Criminal Law that said that penalties served to purge guilt and that crime was an individuals choice and from Criminal Anthropology for whom the Man was born as a delinquent and penalty should be a medical measure to cure law offenders were present in the understanding of female crime and the daily life of these institutions. By reading documents from that period, among them journals such as A Estrela and Arquivos Penitenciários do Brasil, it was possible to rebuild arguments and goals that were used to justify the foundation of womens prisons in the country, as well as identify for whom they were built for. It concludes that womens prison system were built in a very peculiar way, mixing components from the two above-mentioned criminological schools with religious and morals elements, aiming to give back to society good mothers and wives, that is, women free from the vices and illness that moved them away from their expected paths. In that sense, female criminality, seen as a deviation from the social role that women were supposed to perform, should be contained and corrected. That explains why a religious Congregation was responsible for running the first womens prisons in Brazil, which privileged the recovery of elements valued as attached to the feminine.

This diploma thesis describes the current state of legal regulation and implementation of protective education in the Czech Republic. The first part contains the theoretical background of the whole work and deals with the terminological apparatus. It also contains psychological aspects of juvenile delinquency and history of criminal responsibility of children and adolescents in the Czech Republic. The second part contains the valid legislation of this particular with an accent on the issue of protective education. The third part describes current practice in institutional and protective education, with particular emphasis on placement and transfer of children and adolescents to individual facilities, which it specifies. Part Four examines the current aplicable rules in realization of protective education within a specific set of facilities and the legal regulations of juvenile delinquency in Slovakia. The fifth part describes the changes brought about by the new system of private law and the current proposals for changing the whole system of institutional education of children and youth. The seventh part contains a research, in which a representative sample of professional public from various types of institutions was approached and the research is aimed at gaining knowledge about the practice of...