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Security threats and prevention

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Course Unit Code060-0541/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SCU66doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D.
Summary
Introduce students to the basic issues and trends and preventing illegal phenomena, namely terrorism, extremism and crime. Splits security threats, threats to global and regional security threats, definition, history, evolution and typology of terrorism, its strategy, means and methods. Extremist scene in the Czech Republic, spectator violence, religious extremism and environmental extremism, objectives and methods Typology of other social pathologies and current types of addiction, bullying, vandalism, corruption and organized crime.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Student gains during the study theoretical knowledge to enable him to carry out prevention of infringement in the Czech Republic and their evaluation applied to specific entities in practice.
Course Contents
1) Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of infringements in general
2) Global and regional threats to security threats
3) Definition, history, evolution and typology of terrorism, its strategy and tactics,
4) Prevention and methods of combating terrorism and its financing, criminal terrorism, fundamentalist terrorism,
5) The risk analysis of terrorist threats and their prevention
6) extremist scene in the Czech Republic and its symbolism, extremism and political radicalism
8) Prevention of radicalism, extremism and spectator violence,
11) Social pathological phenomena bullying, vandalism and their prevention,
12) Typology of addictive substances and contemporary types of addictions, prevention of these phenomena
13) Corruption and organized crime, prevention
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Ščurek, R.: Sociální patologie II. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita Ostrava, Lékařská fakulta, 2011. -- 141 s., [4] s. obr. příl. : il. ; 30 cm. ISBN: 978-80-7368-825-7 (brož.)
Mareš, M.,: Terorismus v ČR /. - 1. vyd.. - Brno: Centrum strategických studií,
2005 - 476 s. ISBN 80-903333-8-9
Chmelík, J.,: Extremismus a jeho právní a sociologické aspekty, Praha : Linde,
2001 - 172 s. ISBN 80-7201-265-7
Zákon č.167/1998Sb. O návykových látkách ve znění změn a doplnění
Meltzer, A.: Anarchismus : argumenty pro a proti, Praha : Anarchistický
nakladatelský kolektiv, 2002. - 39 s
Ščurek, R.: Sociální patologie II. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita Ostrava, Lékařská fakulta, 2011. -- 141 s., [4] s. obr. příl. : il. ; 30 cm. ISBN: 978-80-7368-825-7 (brož.)
Mareš, M.,: Terorismus v ČR /. - 1. vyd.. - Brno: Centrum strategických studií,
2005 - 476 s. ISBN 80-903333-8-9
Chmelík, J.,: Extremismus a jeho právní a sociologické aspekty, Praha : Linde,
2001 - 172 s. ISBN 80-7201-265-7
Zákon č.167/1998Sb. O návykových látkách ve znění změn a doplnění
Meltzer, A.: Anarchismus : argumenty pro a proti, Praha : Anarchistický
nakladatelský kolektiv, 2002. - 39 s
Recommended Reading:
•Kropáček, L.: Islám a Západ : historická paměť a současná krize, Praha : Vyšehrad, 2002 - 197 s. ISBN 80-7021-540-2.
•ARRIGO Bruce A., WILLIAMS Christopher R. Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology (Critical Perspectives in Criminology), 304 pages, University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 0252072898, ISBN-13: 978-0252072895.
•Kropáček, L.: Islám a Západ : historická paměť a současná krize, Praha : Vyšehrad, 2002 - 197 s. ISBN 80-7021-540-2.
•ARRIGO Bruce A., WILLIAMS Christopher R. Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology (Critical Perspectives in Criminology), 304 pages, University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 0252072898, ISBN-13: 978-0252072895.

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