Václav Walach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Václav Walach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Václav |
| FAMILY NAME | Walach |
| SIGNATURE | WALACH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Bohemia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2643-7633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
One room only: The role of marginal housing tenure in residential mobility among low-income households
This article examines the relationship between marginal housing tenure and residential mobility among low-income households. Housing tenure has been found to be significantly associated with mobility, with tenancy increasing chances of moving more than homeownership. However, little attention has been devoted to the role of different tenure sub-types such as marginal housing, which comprises rooming houses, hostels and similar less secure arrange…
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents
Landlords and screens: Using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording
This study seeks to expand the interest of organized crime researchers in property by focusing on organized predatory landlording. The aim is twofold. First, we set out to demonstrate that some instances of this business can be adequately conceptualized as organized crime, which has specific implications for understanding the operation of the groups involved as well as the possibilities of their social control. Second, we contend that criminal la…
The need for a criminology of housing exploitation: A review of the documentary film The Impossibility HlaváčekT. (Director) (2024) The Impossibility [Film], 146 min, GPO Platform and Czech Television
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties
This study seeks to expand the criminological interest in narrative fiction by examining the functions that complex fictional stories on crime control can perform. As a case study, the article takes the Czech Television series The Nineties , which tells the story of a police investigation into murders linked to the rise of organised crime in 1990s Czechia. Broadcast in early 2022, the show became widely popular, as it was seen as not only coverin…
Postsocialism as a Crime: The Role of Police Memory in the Remembrance of the Post-1989 Systemic Changes in the Czech Republic
The decade of the 1990s has become a significant topic of cultural memory in postsocialist countries, including the Czech Republic. One of the most pervasive interpretive frames of this period of recent history, present across various media, is that of “crime.” This article argues that such a framing is supported by the police, an institution with considerable power to shape shared notions about the recent past. The interpretation of the first po…
Violence and disablist hate crime against people with intellectual disabilities: Czech NGOs and service providers’ experiences
This study explores the relationship between intellectual disabilities and violent victimization, its reporting, and perceived priority in victim needs in criminal proceedings using data from a survey conducted among Czech organizations working with disabled people. The main aim is to find out whether there are differences between the organizations based on the type of disabilities they focus on. Pearson’s chi-squared, Fisher’s exact test and z-t…
Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime Research
Violence against disabled people has recently been recognised as an important, albeit neglected research topic.Drawing attention to violence motivated by anti-disability bias, this article offers an introduction to research on disablist hate crime.First, it presents a conceptualisation of hate crime and explains such concepts as disablism and ableism.Second, it discusses the concept of disability/disablist hate crime and analyses four areas that …
Are All Disadvantaged Equal? Predictors of Living in Hostels in Czech Socially Excluded Localities
This study explores the relationship between social exclusion and housing tenure. It seeks to identify the factors that increase the chance that inhabitants of socially excluded localities (SELs) in Czechia will live in a hostel (a single room occupancy hotel). Do these factors indicate a higher intensity of social exclusion among people who live in hostels? Do hostels house the more disadvantaged segment of the disadvantaged population, such as…
Everyday Roma Stigmatization: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus
Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well-documented, with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. In this article we focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization-racialized urban encounters-and their neglected longer-term a…
The poverty business: Landlords, illicit practices and reproduction of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Czechia
Profit, or power? Towards a construction of organized crime in Czech policy
Anarchist Criminology: Mark Seis and Stanislav Vysotsky Interviewed by Václav Walach
Anarchist criminology is not a new approach to the critical study of harm, crime, and criminalization, but it has been largely overlooked and gained serious impetus only in recent years. This interview features two scholars who have been at the forefront of this development. Mark Seis co-edited the volumes Contemporary Anarchist Criminology (Nocella, Seis and Shantz 2018) and Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology (Nocella, Seis, and Shantz 20…
On Narrative Violence: How Stories Inflict Harm in a Street Context
Drawing on the speech act theory as well as narrative and cultural criminology, this paper aims to make a contribution regarding the functions of narratives in a street context. The concept of narrative violence is introduced and used to analyze the phenomenon of podělávání (a hardly translatable Czech word, semantically close to a hustle) that takes place in marginalized and ethnically segregated areas of the Czech Republic. Podělávání refers to…
Envy, Corruption and ‘Hard Racism’: Studying Antigypsyism as an Ideological Fantasy
Antigypsyism has been frequently said to be a racist ideology. However, although some studies have engaged with the ‘racist’ component of the thesis, almost no work has been done in terms of specifying what ideology is and how a certain conception of it can enhance the understanding of antigypsyism both as a concept and empirical phenomenon. This paper explores the potential of the Lacanian theory of ideology as exemplified by Slavoj Žižek for de…
Illicit drug use and exposure in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Czechia: Policy representations and evidence
This study examines the lifetime prevalence of illicit drug use and illicit drug exposure in disadvantaged ("Roma") and more affluent neighborhoods in Czechia. The results of a survey among populations of both types of neighborhoods suggest no statistically significant difference between the two in terms of the overall lifetime prevalence of illicit drug use; however, lifetime prevalence of methamphetamine use proved higher in disadvantaged neigh…
The Sources of Insecurity in a Socially Excluded Locality
The present study aims to contribute to the development of sociological research on insecurity in socially excluded localities in the Czech Republic. Inspiration for the conceptualisation of the subject of this study comes from the field of critical security studies and specifically the Copenhagen and Aberystwyth schools of security and feminism. Empirically, the study draws on the author's long-term experience conducting fieldwork in socially ex…
Everyday Roma Stigmatization: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus
Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well-documented, with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. In this article we focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization-racialized urban encounters-and their neglected longer-term a…
On Narrative Violence: How Stories Inflict Harm in a Street Context
Drawing on the speech act theory as well as narrative and cultural criminology, this paper aims to make a contribution regarding the functions of narratives in a street context. The concept of narrative violence is introduced and used to analyze the phenomenon of podělávání (a hardly translatable Czech word, semantically close to a hustle) that takes place in marginalized and ethnically segregated areas of the Czech Republic. Podělávání refers to…
The Sources of Insecurity in a Socially Excluded Locality
The present study aims to contribute to the development of sociological research on insecurity in socially excluded localities in the Czech Republic. Inspiration for the conceptualisation of the subject of this study comes from the field of critical security studies and specifically the Copenhagen and Aberystwyth schools of security and feminism. Empirically, the study draws on the author's long-term experience conducting fieldwork in socially ex…
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties
This study seeks to expand the criminological interest in narrative fiction by examining the functions that complex fictional stories on crime control can perform. As a case study, the article takes the Czech Television series The Nineties , which tells the story of a police investigation into murders linked to the rise of organised crime in 1990s Czechia. Broadcast in early 2022, the show became widely popular, as it was seen as not only coverin…
The Sources of Insecurity in a Socially Excluded Locality
The present study aims to contribute to the development of sociological research on insecurity in socially excluded localities in the Czech Republic. Inspiration for the conceptualisation of the subject of this study comes from the field of critical security studies and specifically the Copenhagen and Aberystwyth schools of security and feminism. Empirically, the study draws on the author's long-term experience conducting fieldwork in socially ex…
Envy, Corruption and ‘Hard Racism’: Studying Antigypsyism as an Ideological Fantasy
Antigypsyism has been frequently said to be a racist ideology. However, although some studies have engaged with the ‘racist’ component of the thesis, almost no work has been done in terms of specifying what ideology is and how a certain conception of it can enhance the understanding of antigypsyism both as a concept and empirical phenomenon. This paper explores the potential of the Lacanian theory of ideology as exemplified by Slavoj Žižek for de…
Illicit drug use and exposure in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Czechia: Policy representations and evidence
This study examines the lifetime prevalence of illicit drug use and illicit drug exposure in disadvantaged ("Roma") and more affluent neighborhoods in Czechia. The results of a survey among populations of both types of neighborhoods suggest no statistically significant difference between the two in terms of the overall lifetime prevalence of illicit drug use; however, lifetime prevalence of methamphetamine use proved higher in disadvantaged neigh…
The poverty business: Landlords, illicit practices and reproduction of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Czechia
Profit, or power? Towards a construction of organized crime in Czech policy
Anarchist Criminology: Mark Seis and Stanislav Vysotsky Interviewed by Václav Walach
Anarchist criminology is not a new approach to the critical study of harm, crime, and criminalization, but it has been largely overlooked and gained serious impetus only in recent years. This interview features two scholars who have been at the forefront of this development. Mark Seis co-edited the volumes Contemporary Anarchist Criminology (Nocella, Seis and Shantz 2018) and Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology (Nocella, Seis, and Shantz 20…
On Narrative Violence: How Stories Inflict Harm in a Street Context
Drawing on the speech act theory as well as narrative and cultural criminology, this paper aims to make a contribution regarding the functions of narratives in a street context. The concept of narrative violence is introduced and used to analyze the phenomenon of podělávání (a hardly translatable Czech word, semantically close to a hustle) that takes place in marginalized and ethnically segregated areas of the Czech Republic. Podělávání refers to…
Everyday Roma Stigmatization: Racialized Urban Encounters, Collective Histories and Fragmented Habitus
Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well-documented, with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. In this article we focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization-racialized urban encounters-and their neglected longer-term a…
Violence and disablist hate crime against people with intellectual disabilities: Czech NGOs and service providers’ experiences
This study explores the relationship between intellectual disabilities and violent victimization, its reporting, and perceived priority in victim needs in criminal proceedings using data from a survey conducted among Czech organizations working with disabled people. The main aim is to find out whether there are differences between the organizations based on the type of disabilities they focus on. Pearson’s chi-squared, Fisher’s exact test and z-t…
Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime Research
Violence against disabled people has recently been recognised as an important, albeit neglected research topic.Drawing attention to violence motivated by anti-disability bias, this article offers an introduction to research on disablist hate crime.First, it presents a conceptualisation of hate crime and explains such concepts as disablism and ableism.Second, it discusses the concept of disability/disablist hate crime and analyses four areas that …
Are All Disadvantaged Equal? Predictors of Living in Hostels in Czech Socially Excluded Localities
This study explores the relationship between social exclusion and housing tenure. It seeks to identify the factors that increase the chance that inhabitants of socially excluded localities (SELs) in Czechia will live in a hostel (a single room occupancy hotel). Do these factors indicate a higher intensity of social exclusion among people who live in hostels? Do hostels house the more disadvantaged segment of the disadvantaged population, such as…
Can detective fiction save liberal democracy? On the performative functions of crime control in the Czech TV series The Nineties
This study seeks to expand the criminological interest in narrative fiction by examining the functions that complex fictional stories on crime control can perform. As a case study, the article takes the Czech Television series The Nineties , which tells the story of a police investigation into murders linked to the rise of organised crime in 1990s Czechia. Broadcast in early 2022, the show became widely popular, as it was seen as not only coverin…
Postsocialism as a Crime: The Role of Police Memory in the Remembrance of the Post-1989 Systemic Changes in the Czech Republic
The decade of the 1990s has become a significant topic of cultural memory in postsocialist countries, including the Czech Republic. One of the most pervasive interpretive frames of this period of recent history, present across various media, is that of “crime.” This article argues that such a framing is supported by the police, an institution with considerable power to shape shared notions about the recent past. The interpretation of the first po…
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents
Landlords and screens: Using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording
This study seeks to expand the interest of organized crime researchers in property by focusing on organized predatory landlording. The aim is twofold. First, we set out to demonstrate that some instances of this business can be adequately conceptualized as organized crime, which has specific implications for understanding the operation of the groups involved as well as the possibilities of their social control. Second, we contend that criminal la…
The need for a criminology of housing exploitation: A review of the documentary film The Impossibility HlaváčekT. (Director) (2024) The Impossibility [Film], 146 min, GPO Platform and Czech Television
One room only: The role of marginal housing tenure in residential mobility among low-income households
This article examines the relationship between marginal housing tenure and residential mobility among low-income households. Housing tenure has been found to be significantly associated with mobility, with tenancy increasing chances of moving more than homeownership. However, little attention has been devoted to the role of different tenure sub-types such as marginal housing, which comprises rooming houses, hostels and similar less secure arrange…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Czech (7 works) · Disadvantaged (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)