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Crime of Stalking and Protection of its Victims This diploma thesis focuses on the issue of stalking, or more precisely on its individual aspects and its legislation in the Czech Republic. As for the structure of this thesis, it is divided into five main sections. The first section deals with stalking in general. The individual chapters are devoted to the definition of this term, the historical development of this phenomenon and common forms of stalking, including two specific types of stalking, which are cyberstalking and stalking in the workplace. The second section deals with the characteristics of stalkers and their motives. The third section concerns the victims of stalking. The individual chapters successively analyse the typologies of victims, the impact of stalking on victims, including post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as the main strategies oriented towards helping the victims of stalking and, finally, the issue of false victims. The third section and the fourth one are the most comprehensive of all and together they constitute the core of the thesis. The fourth section focuses on anti-stalking legislation of the Czech Republic, whereas the most comprehensive chapter is devoted to the crime of stalking. This chapter is concluded with the issue of punishment for this crime and also...

The thesis ?Help to the Victims of Stalking? deals with the problem of the dangerous pursuit or stalking. The main goal of my work lies especially in publicizing this kind of stalking and the ways how to solve the situations of the victims of stalking. i divided my work into two main parts. The first chapter of the theoretical part defines stalking as a specific form of relational violence. Another chapter tries to judge the level of stalking on the basis of collected and evaluated data about both offender and victim, and to assess situational factors and the dynamics of stalking. The next chapter focuses on legislation of stalking in the Czech Republic and institutions which offers help to victims and education for public. The last chapter of theory is about assistance to the victims of stalking and interventions. The practical part of the thesis brings the quantitative survey with the use of the method of questionnaire with interrogation. i set the following goals of the research: to realize the level of awareness of stalking in České Budějovice and whether the general public in this town can specify the way how to help the victims of stalking. After evaluation of survey outputs i can say that the first hypothesis was verified, but the second one was not confirmed.

The theoretical part of the bachelor?s thesis deals mainly with clarifying the term of ?stalking? as a dangerous harassment of a victim by offenders. This part will provide the reader with a detailed professional explanation and other background to the given issue. The thesis copes with the methods of stalking; forms and ways stalkers use; it tells who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. Also, it observes stalking from the perspective of its impact on the victim. Being a danger to society, it is described as a socio-pathological phenomenon with possible health, social, and mental impacts on the victim. The practical part of the bachelor?s thesis comprises of a quantitative research, which used the method of questionnaire and that was distributed to selected respondents in target groups of people, see target group. The practical part focused on finding out the level of awareness of stalking among selected respondents in Jindřichův Hradec, occurrence of this phenomenon in the given region, forms and ways stalkers use, and possible preventive measures against stalking.