Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, May, 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Post-penitentiary treatment and prevention of recidivism The submitted thesis deals with the problems of prevention of recidivism and post- penitentiary treatment in the Czech legal regulation, and its structure is divided into three main spheres, which are successively analyzed. The first chapter, in its part consisting of four opening subchapters, defines the term recidivism as it is understood in different branches of science dealing with criminal activity. The following subchapter briefly summarizes the main possible reasons of recidivism. Focus point of the thesis lies in the second and the third chapter, where is the main issue of the thesis specified. The second chapter deals with the prevention of recidivism, and the possibilities provided by the Czech criminal law to educative impingement on the offender of the criminal activity. The most expansive part of this chapter focuses on the problems of penitentiary treatment in the Czech Republic within the scope of imprisonment, and accent is placed on the manner of enforcement and serving the imprisonment, as programs of treatment providing educative influence on the sentenced. In the following subchapters, the possibilities of alternative penalties, alternatives of punishments, and the different ways of execution of the criminal cases are...