The Impact of Legislative Changes on Perception and Awareness of Domestic Violence Issue

The issue of domestic violence is a very serious and sufficient awareness about this social problem is very important. The bachelor thesis is devoted to find out the awareness of the University of South Bohemia students about this issue, prevention, occurence, consequences and possibilities of domesting violence solving. Furthermore, to find out the approaches of University of South Bohemia students to the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating of Violence against women and domestic violence and to find out the advantages and disadvantages of this ratification. Theoretical part characterizes domestic violence, its features, forms, causes, identification and consequences. It describes the cycle of domestic violence and the persons involved, which are the victim and the violent person. In the field of dealing with the domestic violence, the prevention of domestic violence and legislative measures, including their shortcomings and the Convention of the Council of Europe are described. An important part is the role of the social work. The data collection was performed using a quantitative research strategy. To obtain the data, the method of questioning and the technique of own questionnaire were chosen. The collected data were evaluated using Microsoft Excel. The hypothesis was tested using IBM SPSS method of using one-way analysis of variance ANOVA. The research questions examined the awareness of students at the University of South Bohemia on the issue of domestic violence and the impact of the ratification of the Convention of the Council of Europe on the territory of Czech Republic. Hypothesis: The perception of the Convention of the Council of Europe on Preventing and combating of violence against women and domestic violence by students of the University of South Bohemia depends on the field of study. The results show that the respondents´ perception of the Council of Europe Convention does not differ significantly depending on the field of study. Results of the research can be used by experts who deal with the issue of poor awareness of the domestic violence issue and to improve this situation