Course: Social Work with Offenders

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Course title Social Work with Offenders
Course code KPZ/P6SDV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pokorná Kristlová Veronika, PhDr.
  • Kvasničková Hana, Mgr.
Course content
Crime, offence and offender. Execution of imprisonment. Alternative sentences. Probation and mediation service. Counselling for offenders. Victims of crime. Specifics of crisis work with victims of crime. Counselling for victims of crime. Introduction - discussion on a given topic, analysis of a current situation. Typology of offenders. Specifics of juvenile delinquency, probation programme. Typology of victims of crime. Visit to the intervention centre.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Skills training
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to familiarize the learner with issues in social work with offenders - with the history, basic terminology and with the issue of victims of crime.
Student knows the basic terminology of the subject, he/ she is versed in the history and the present, can apply theoretical information in practice.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The fulfilment of compulsory attendance at lectures and seminars. Written test or oral exam fulfilment according to course guarantor decision.
Recommended literature
  • GŘIVNA, T.; SCHEINOST M.; ZOUBKOVÁ, I. Kriminologie. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2014.
  • SOBOTKOVÁ, V. Rizikové a antisociální chování v adolescenci. Praha: Grada, 2014.
  • VELIKOVSKÁ, M. Psychologie obětí trestných činů: proces viktimizace, status oběti a jeho význam, prevence a vyrovnávání se s viktimizací, reálné případy z policejní praxe. Praha: Grada, 2016.


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