Abstract
The Czech Republic is situated in Central Europe between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. Having a size of 79,000 km2 and a population of 10.3 million inhabitants (2006),2 it is one of the smaller countries of the European Union. The Czech Republic consists of three historical regions: Bohemia, Moravia, and a part of Silesia; however, now it is divided into 14 regions, one of which is its capital, Prague.
According to a population census carried out in 2001 by the Czech Statistical Office, a great majority of inhabitants claimed to be of Czech nationality (94%), and the larger minority groups were Slovaks (2%), Poles (0.5%), Germans (0.4%), Ukrainians (0.2%), Vietnamese (0.2%), and Roma (0.1%). However, in reality, the proportion of the Roma population in the Czech Republic is considerably larger – qualified estimates provided by the government are 1–3%.3 The religiosity of the population is one of the lowest in Europe: 59% of the inhabitants have no religion, 27% are Roman Catholic, and 2% are Protestants.
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Unless explicitly expressed, all data in this section were provided by Czech Statistical Office (http://www.czso.cz) and the reference year is indicated in the bracket.
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The ambiguous result of the census is caused by the fact that many Romanies claim Czech nationality and regard themselves as an ethnic group.
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Nine questionnaires were excluded from the final data set because of their very doubtful usability and, in addition, another six questionnaires were excluded because of too many missing answers.
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3% of children lived partly with their father and partly with the mother, 1% only with their father, 1% with their father and a stepmother, and 1% mentioned other possibility.
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This section refers only to children living in families with both own parents or in lone-parent households (84% of children).
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Or their parent with whom they stayed worked in the case of lone parent households.
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Factor scores tend to get normal distribution and the mean therefore corresponds to the 0.00 value. The most distinct and interesting divergences from “average” tendencies (which is always close to the group of non-delinquent pupils) have been marked in bold.
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Versatility means score of self-reported delinquent behaviour during life-time or last year, it is scaled from 0 to 100, indicating the percentage of the delinquent behaviour investigated that have been committed in the reference period.
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We made it asymmetrically (“delinquent” means 9 points and more).
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For more detailed review of findings, see Burianek and Podana (2007, 79pp).
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Burianek, J., Podana, Z. (2010). Czech Republic. In: Junger-Tas, J., Marshall, I., Enzmann, D., Killias, M., Steketee, M., Gruszczynska, B. (eds) Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95982-5_21
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