OF THE THESIS Name: Bc. Lada Broklová Specialization: Addictology Head of the thesis: Mgr. Jaroslav Šejvl Opponent: JUDr. Michaela Štefunková, Ph.D. Pages: 91 The name of the thesis: THE RELATIONSHIP OF ALCOHOL AND MURDERS OF WOMEN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC - CASE STUDIES Abstract: The aim of the thesis is to analyze committing murders by women who are under the influence of alcohol. The theoretical part focuses on explaining the concepts and characteristics of the alcohol, crime, violent crime and the concept of alcohol as a criminogenic factor. There are the chapters specifically aimed at women and alcohol and women-murderess. The first part summarizes the essentials of what was published in this issues. The work is accompanied by several illustrative charts. The practical part focuses on qualitative research using methods of analysis of court files. The work is conceived as case study, detailed studies of three cases of murders committed by women under the influence of alcohol. Using the method of trapping patterns alcohol career perpetrators, the effect of alcohol on the offense, personality structure of perpetrator and the crime were monitored. It was found that the examined cases are without departing from the cases commonly described in the literature. Perpetrators at the time of crimes were...

The term femicide was used to refer to the murder of women. Intimate femicide referred to the murder of women by men with whom they had an intimate love relationship. The purpose of this research was to make visible the intimate and domestic nature of femicide by describing all femicides in Saskatchewan between 1988 and 1992 inclusive. A second purpose of this research was to learn about prevention both from committed femicides and from two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicide. This research was feminist in nature and utilized elements of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Data were gathered on all women known to be murdered between 1988 and 1992 from sources such as newspaper searches, coroners' reports, and police files. Based on these data, femicides were classified as intimate or non-intimate femicides and as possibly preventable or not preventable within the femicidal incident itself. Further data were gathered from interviews with two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicidal attack. Both sets of data were then reviewed and themes relating to the prevention of femicide were elicited. These themes focussed on failures of the communities in which these women resided or were murdered, failures of the medical community to correctly identify femicidal men, failures of the judicial system in their dealings with femicidal men, failures of the organized church, and failures of the institution of the family. Ten femicides were classified as possibly preventable within the femicidal assault itself. In addition, the interviews with both survivors identified many areas of possible intervention relating to prevention over a longer period of time. The study concludes with my reflections on the process of engaging in research on femicide, discussions about areas for further research and the identification of possible implications for public policy.

The term femicide was used to refer to the murder of women. Intimate femicide referred to the murder of women by men with whom they had an intimate love relationship. The purpose of this research was to make visible the intimate and domestic nature of femicide by describing all femicides in Saskatchewan between 1988 and 1992 inclusive. A second purpose of this research was to learn about prevention both from committed femicides and from two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicide. This research was feminist in nature and utilized elements of both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Data were gathered on all women known to be murdered between 1988 and 1992 from sources such as newspaper searches, coroners' reports, and police files. Based on these data, femicides were classified as intimate or non-intimate femicides and as possibly preventable or not preventable within the femicidal incident itself. Further data were gathered from interviews with two women who had survived an attempted intimate femicidal attack. Both sets of data were then reviewed and themes relating to the prevention of femicide were elicited. These themes focussed on failures of the communities in which these women resided or were murdered, failures of the medical community to correctly identify femicidal men, failures of the judicial system in their dealings with femicidal men, failures of the organized church, and failures of the institution of the family. Ten femicides were classified as possibly preventable within the femicidal assault itself. In addition, the interviews with both survivors identified many areas of possible intervention relating to prevention over a longer period of time. The study concludes with my reflections on the process of engaging in research on femicide, discussions about areas for further research and the identification of possible implications for public policy.