Educational Measures in Practice

The bachelor thesis is focused on educational measures that are imposed to juvenile offenders for their offenses according to the Law on Juvenile Justice. First, I want to characterize this law and development of this branch. Further description is focused on the principle of restorative justice and individual educational measures which are imposed to adolescents and children under 15 years old. The conclusion of the theoretical part is devoted to the role of the Probation and Mediation Service and of the social-legal protection of children and to brief comparison with measures that are imposed to juvenile in Slovakia. The practical part is realized by using qualitative research and technique structured interviews. The research was conducted with nine respondents which were employees of the Probation and Mediation Service and curators for children and youth. They answered on thirteen questions. I want to find out which education measures in practice are actually imposed which are imposed the most frequently and for what offenses. The next question I want to resolved were information about performance and control of the education measures. I also wanted to know how respondents assess the effectiveness of these measures and how the adolescents and their parents cooperate with them. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to show the problems associated with special educational measures that are imposed to delinquent juveniles and find out which of these educational measures are used in practice and how its performance looks like. In conclusion, based on the investigation I found out that the most imposed educational measure is supervision of a probation officer. I also figure out that common offense which is committed by juveniles is theft. Respondents evaluate the effectiveness of educational measures positively as well as cooperation with minors