Violent crime and its prevention

The theme of this thesis is "Violent Crime and its Prevention". The violence can be seen everywhere, in the family, in school, at work or in the streets. Every day the media inform the public about violent crime. Is it true that the violence increases in our society or is it only a report interesting for the media? The purpose of this study is the answer this question. The thesis is composed of seven chapters and a number of subchapters. The first and introductory chapter defines basic terminology used in the thesis, for example criminology, criminality, violent crime, aggression and violence. Chapter two deals with the phenomenology of violent crime. The chapter consist of three parts. Part one focuses on the state of violent crime. Part two is concerned with the structure of violent crime and part three documents dynamics of violent crime. Third chapter outlines the victims and theirs issues. This chapter firstly explains the terms as victimology, victimity, victimization, victim. Latter parts of this chapter are concerned with the behaviour of victim, the relationship between offender and victim, the typology of victims, the help to victims, prevention from becoming a victim, the victim's psychology and finally analyses the victims of violent crime in the Czech Republic. Fourth chapter is called "The..