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Criminology for Engineers

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0023/01
Abbreviation KRIM
Course title Criminology for Engineers
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Characteristics of criminology, subject, concept and meaning
2. The emergence of criminology, crime, its causes and conditions and criminological schools, new directions in criminology
3. Status, structure, dynamics and control of crime
4. Criminogenic factors and personality of the perpetrator of crimes
5. Profiling of the perpetrator of crimes II, selected forensic methods used in
profiling
6. New manifestations of violence and socially pathological behavior
7. Current phenomena of aggression, Hate crime and similar forms of manifestations
of violence
8. Psychology of terrorism and radicalization, assessment tools for the risks of
radicalization and terrorism
9. Recidivism from the perspective of criminology
10. Penology and state criminal policy
11. Victimology and assistance to victims of crimes
12. Selected types of crime: Crime of seniors and committed against seniors,
phenomenology and etiology
13. Women's crime, pink-collar crime and others forms of crime, comparative
criteria

E-learning

Study supports for the source version of the subject

Literature

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GŘIVNA,T., SCHEINOST,M., ZOUBKOVÁ,I. A kol. Kriminologie. Praha:Wolters Kluver, 2019, ISBN 978-80-7598-554-5

JELÍNEK, Jiří a kol. Zákon o obětech trestných činů: komentář s judikaturou. Vyd. 1. Praha: Leges, 2013. 263 s. Komentátor. ISBN 978-80-87576-49-6.

KLIMEK,Libor. Kriminológia vovnutroštátnom a medzinárodnom rozmere. Wolters Kluver 2020. ISBN: 978-80-571-0251-9

MAREŠOVÁ, A. a kol.: Kriminální recidiva a recidivisté: charakteristika, projevy, možnosti trestní justice. Praha: Institut pro kriminologii a sociální prevenci, 2011. 303s. ISBN 978-80-7338-119-6 

Masood, M., Nawaz, M., Malik, K. M., Javed, A., & Irtaza, A. (2021, February 25). Deepfakes Generation and Detection: State‑of‑the‑art, open challenges, countermeasures, and way forward [Preprint]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2103.00484

SMOLÍK, Josef. 2020. Psychology of terrorism and radicalism: How lambs become wolves. Brno, Mendela, ISBN 978-80-7509-723-1 

GING, Debbie. Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere. Online. Men and Masculinities. 2019, roč. 22, č. 4, s. 638-657. ISSN 1097-184X . Dostupné
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MUSILOVÁ, Václava. 2005. What is forensic linguistics I.-III. Czech at home and in the world. vol. 13, pp. 65–70. ISSN 1210-9339 .

Advised literature

FISCHER, S., VETEŠKA,J. Psychologie kriminálního chování. E-Book, 2020, ISBN 978-80-271-0731-5

SCHEINOST, M. et al. Kriminalita očima kriminologů. Praha : Institut pro kriminologii a sociální prevenci, 2010. 238s. ISBN 978-80-7338-096-0 

TOMÁŠEK, J. Úvod do kriminologie : Jak studovat zločin. Praha : Grada, 2010. 224 s. ISBN 978-80-247-2982

SMEJKAL,V. Krybernetická kriminalita. Plzeň, Aleš Čeněk, 2018, ISBN 978-80-7380-720-7

ZOUBKOVÁ, Ivana et al. Kriminologický slovník. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2011. 251 s. ISBN 978-80-7380-312-4.