SPRn4508 Criminality and Social Work with Offenders

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Navrátilová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jitka Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The students will take up with the modern criminology and social work with offenders of the 20th century and its theoretical concepts. Special attention is dedicated to the methods of criminology and penology research and actual problems of penal justice. After that the rest of the course is divided into 2 parts.
In part 1 – criminological part – is speaking about social pathology, types of criminality and its social impact. Also is presented actual progress in criminality, with special attention in computer, property, violent, economic, drug-related, prostitution-related and organized criminality.
Part 2 is devoted to the questions of punishment and social work with offenders. Students are taking up with the history of penal ideas, European and Czech concepts of the penal law and penal system, types of punishments and roles of social workers. Also is talking about execution of the punishment, its efficiency and postpenitentiary care.
Learning outcomes
The student is well versed in the topic peniternality, theories of crime, the actual situation of criminality and social work with offenders in Czech republic and in the world.
Syllabus
  • I. BASIC TERMS OF THE AREA OF CRIMINALITY II. THEORIES OF CRIMINALITY AND CRIME III. PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT AND HISTORY OF PENITENTIARY SYSTEMS, TYPES OF CRIMINAL SANCTIONS APPLICABLE ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC IV. SCIENCE AND RESEARCH OF CRIMINALITY - CRIMINOLOGY AND ITS METHODOLOGY V. CRIMINAL POLICY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR WORKING WITH PRISONERS, EXPERIENCE WITH WORKING WITH PRISONERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SITUATION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC VI. EXECUTION OF IMPRISONMENT SENTENCES, ISSUES OF RESOCIALIZATION, AND REINTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS AFTER THE END OF THE SENTENCE VII. VICTIMOLOGY – WORKING WITH VICTIMS VIII. SOCIAL WORK WITH OFFENDERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IX SPECIFICATION OF SOCIAL WORK WITH OFFENDERS X. PROBATION AND MEDIATION SERVICE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC XI. PRISON SERVICE AND THE ISSUES OF WORKING WITH OFFENDERS IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD XII. CRIME PREVENTION, CURRENT WORLD TRENDS OF WORKING WITH OFFENDERS XIII PSYCHOHYGIENE AS A PREVENTION OF THE BURNOUT SYNDROME
Literature
    required literature
  • DRÁPAL, Jakub, Václav JIŘIČKA and Tereza RASZKOVÁ. České vězeňství (Czech prison system). Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7676-066-0. URL info
  • TOMÁŠEK, Jan. Úvod do kriminologie : jak studovat zločin. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2010, 214 s. ISBN 9788024729824. URL info
  • ČERNÍKOVÁ, Vratislava. Sociální ochrana : terciární prevence, její možnosti a limity. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2008, 244 s. ISBN 9788073801380. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Dohlížet a trestat : kniha o zrodu vězení. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Praha: Dauphin, 2000, 427 s. ISBN 8086019969. info
    recommended literature
  • NOVOTNÝ, Oto and Josef ZAPLETAL. Kriminologie. 2., přeprac. vyd. Praha: ASPI, 2004, 451 s. ISBN 8073570262. info
  • KAISER, Günther. Kriminologie : úvod do základů. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 1994, xx, 268. ISBN 8071790028. info
  • KUCHTA, Josef and Vladimír KRATOCHVÍL. Kriminologie. 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 132 s. ISBN 8021022043. info
  • KUCHTA, Josef, Věra KALVODOVÁ and Alexander NETT. Kriminologie. 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 102 s. ISBN 8021022175. info
  • MEZNÍK, Jiří, Věra KALVODOVÁ and Josef KUCHTA. Základy penologie. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 75 s. ISBN 802101248X. info
  • HÁLA, Jaroslav. Úvod do teorie a praxe vězeňství. České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, 2005, 183 s. ISBN 8086708055. info
  • SPURNÝ, Joža. Psychologie násilí :o psychologické podstatě násilí, jeho projevech a způsobech psychologické obrany proti němu. 1. vyd. Praha: Eurounion, 1996, 134 s. ISBN 80-85858-30-4. info
  • Statistic Yearbook - Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (www.mvcr.cz)
  • BASLAROVÁ, Iva. K. Nedbálková, Spoutaná Rozkoš. Sociální (re)produkce genderu a sexuality v ženské věznici. Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2006. eSamizdat. Itálie, 2008. eSamizdat 2008 (VI) 2-3. URL info
  • Doprovázení a terapie delikventů. Edited by Udo Rauchfleisch. Vyd. 1. Boskovice: Albert, 2000, 84 s. ISBN 8085834839. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
Active involvement in teaching is essential. The seminars work with one-page assignments developed by students during the year based on their own motivation and presented in lectures. These tasks are mainly voluntary, but they are scored, access to the exam is conditional on at least two points. The exam takes the form of an oral examination. The final evaluation consists of the points obtained for the tasks and for the knowledge of the exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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