Alternative punishments and their influence on the resocialization of the convict

Alternative punishments and their impact on the resocialization of the convicted person Summary This rigorous thesis primarily deals with the issue of alternative punishments, with particular attention devoted to monetary penalties, community service, home confinement, and conditional sentences of imprisonment. The introductory part of the thesis focuses on general questions related to alternative punishments, especially their purpose, rationale, advantages, systematization, and categorization. The first chapter already presents practical and factual statistical data, from which it is possible to determine, for example, the employment rate of convicted persons in Czech prisons, the average state expenditure per inmate, the percentage share of alternative punishments in judicial practice, or the number of diversions incorporating restorative elements in pre-trial proceedings between 2011 and 2023. Attention is also given to the historical development of alternative punishments, which is concisely and clearly described from the period of feudalism, through the era of the estate- based and absolutist state, up to modern history and the post-1989 transformations. The third chapter focuses on the nature, principles, and benefits of restorative justice, which, instead of a repressive approach and punishment of...