Czech Criminology Review 1–2/2021
FOREWORD
Introduction for the special issue of Czech Criminology Review
Alena Marešová
ARTICLES
The pitfalls of revising crime information systems: A case study of the justice department
Šárka Blatníková, Petr Zeman
Official criminal court data: An examination of their reliability
Tomáš Vanča, Jakub Drápal
InfoSoud dataset and its possibilities for researchers:
Do courts impose harsher sentences after a protest against a penal order is filed?
Jakub Drápal, Jan Vávra
The law enforcement administrative data for analyses based on statistical time series models: example of drug policies
Benjamin Petruželka
Classification errors in police statistics on criminal offenses with an extremist context
Václav Walach, Benjamin Petruželka
Personal data protection in criminological research
Karolína Nová, Jakub Drápal
ESSAYS
What statistics (don’t) tell us about victims of crime
Michaela Roubalová
After much anticipation, the police have released detailed data on crime
Jan Cibulka
SARPO and statistics of everyday penitentiary practice
Michal Petras, Jindřich Hůrka
Revision of crime statistic sheets and reports in Slovakia: Ten things we would do differently
Maroš Terkanič, Daniela Gálisová
INTERVIEWS
"We provide data to scientists and can report good experiences with how our information is used" An interview with Václav Jonáš
Jakub Drápal
"The biggest hurdles when utilising data on convicts are time and the art of working with such data" An interview with Lucie Mäsiarová
Jakub Drápal
REPORTS
Information on the preparation of a new information system
Jan Rozum, Michaela Roubalová
OTO NOVOTNÝ IN MEMORIAM
Oto Novotný - criminologist and inspirator
Jan Musil
Oto Novotný looks back on criminology in the 1950s and 1960s
Jakub Drápal
Oto Novotný, Research Institute of Criminology and the Year of 1968
Miroslav Scheinost