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Results presentation of a three years research of victims of crime in Slovakia and their comparison with the research of crime victims in neighboring countries and exchange of knowledge. This is one of the objectives of the international conference entitled "Victims of Crime" organized by the Faculty of Law of the Paneuropean University in collaboration with the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of the University of Vienna. The conference was hold under the auspice of the slovak First Lady.
On 25th November 2010 Mrs. Silvia Gašparovičová and foreign participants from Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic were at the University welcomed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Mr. Jaroslav Ivor. "The issue of victims of crime is complex, an extremely serious social problem, the solution of which is necessary in multifactorial, respectively multidisciplinary approach at the corresponding level of scientific investigation," said at the preliminary meeting Jaroslav Ivor. At the same time he also pointed out that crime is now almost an essential element of electronic or print media news.
According to the Dean Jaroslav Ivor also in public opinion surveys crime consistently appears as one of the most troubling problems. "Crime and streamlining of methods of its detection and prosecution is part of the electoral programs of almost all political parties and movements. Only few, however, suspends the type of information the public gets suggested and what the explanatory power to reality they have."
First Lady at the conference also highlighted the increase in juvenile delinquency. According to her is the increase in juvenile delinquency alarming, as well as the sinking age of offenders. "Ttheir failure can be seen as a lack of parental education and support, poor motivation to learn and to retrieve behavior, economic or family problems. Boundary between permitted and prohibited greatly undermines the violence the children and youth see on television screens and in computer games. Only by a close and coherent cooperation of state authorities, schools, parents and civic communities we can find ways to involve youth in educational and interesting extracurricular activities, and to defend children from crime and violence," said Silvia Gašparovičová.
Recently, however, we also learn about violence against women. In the lives of these women is personally interested in also the First Lady of Slovakia through the Slovak Foundation of Silvia Gašparovičová – Education and Health for Everybody. "We try to provide women endangered by domestic violence the helping hand to return into a life without fear," said the First Lady of Slovakia. The project Life without Violence the Foundation began to implement in 2005.
First Lady also stressed that the obligation of each society must be a comprehensive fight against crime, to provide to their citizens the feeling and reality of security. "It is important that governments recognize that there is no freedom without security, and that life in a safe environment should become a fundamental human right."
Faculty of Law of the Paneuropean University has long been devoted to issues of crime victims. As the only institution in Slovakia they joined the paneuropean research of victims of crime and this year it takes place the third empirical research whose results will be presented at an international conference. Research projects were supported also by the Government Council for Crime Prevention. |
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