PrF:DO2TRPR05 Criminology II - Course Information
DO2TRPR05 Criminology II
Faculty of LawSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. JUDr. Josef Kuchta, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. JUDr. Josef Kuchta, CSc.
Department of Criminal Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Jana Dopitová - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Criminal Law (programme PrF, TRPR_) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim is to acquaint students with a special part of criminology, i.e. with individual types of crime and with crime committed by individual groups of offenders. The individual types will be discussed in terms of statistics, latency, historical development, current state, characteristics of offenders, causes of this crime in the Czech Republic, in terms of prevention of all kinds. Special attention will be paid to familiarizing students with the basics of methodology and methods of criminological research.
- Learning outcomes
- gaining orientation and awareness of students regarding individual groups of crime according to the above mentioned aspects, gaining a general overview of the state of criminological issues in our country and the possibilities of crime reduction.
- Syllabus
- basics of criminological research methodology, introduction to individual criminological methods and their application in practice. Criminal activity of recidivists, juveniles, women, foreigners, individual ethnicities. Transport crime, alcohol and non-alcohol addiction, economic and property crime, computer and internet crime, terrorism and extremism, violent and sexual crime, corruption, organised crime.
- Literature
- KUCHTA, Josef and Helena VÁLKOVÁ. Základy kriminologie a trestní politiky (Basement of the Criminology and the Penal policy). 2. vyd. Praha: C.H.Beck Praha, 2012, 664 pp. Beckovy mezioborové učebnice. ISBN 978-80-7400-429-2. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, discussions at individual meetings, excursions or meetings with the staff of the Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention in Prague.
- Assessment methods
- giving credit for written work, attending meetings, demonstrating knowledge in personal interviews
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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