The supervision as a social pedagogical tool in work with offenders of serious crime

The thesis focuses on probation supervision of offenders of serious crime, which can be considered a tool of in working with clients. The thesis has a theoretical-empirical character. The aim of this thesis is to determine the degree of influence of probation supervision on offenders of serious crime from the perspective of a probation officer. The theoretical part of the thesis is first devoted to the general issue of restorative justice and the Probation and Mediation Service of the Czech Republic, which is an important institution in the field of criminal justice and social work. Then the thesis deals specifically with probation supervision. The next chapter defines serious crime and the specifics of supervision of its offenders. The supervision itself is also described from a social pedagogical perspective. The theoretical part of the thesis is rounded off by a summary of some existing Czech research in this field. In the empirical part, the analysis of data obtained by means of open coding from semi- structured interviews with probation officers carrying out the probation supervision agenda is carried out. The interviews were used to determine whether the purpose of probation supervision, which is to resocialise the offender of serious crime, change their behaviour and prevent them from..