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Football Hooliganism as a Criminal Activity: The Case of the Czech Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n Mgr. Ond\u0159ej Kol\u00e1\u0159, Ph.D., Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Security Studies<\/em><\/p>\n Bc. Linda Dole\u017ealov\u00e1, Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Security Studies<\/em><\/p>\n doc. PhDr. Josef Smol\u00edk, Ph.D., MBA, LL.M., MSc., Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Security Studies<\/em><\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n Football hooliganism is not only in the focus of sociology, psychology, or cultural anthropology, but it can also be approached from the point of view of criminology, security studies, or legal sciences. The paper comes with the definition of football hooliganism, which is seen as referring to specific crimes. Thus, football hooliganism is defined as a set of specific crimes or individual crimes listed in Act No. 40\/2009 Coll., the Criminal Code, as amended. The text is based on secondary data recorded by the Police of the Czech Republic for the period 2011-2021, but it is supplemented by statistics of the courts of law. The basic aim of the text is to present the phenomenon of football hooliganism from the point of view of criminology and to discuss trends in this criminal activity over the last 12 years. At the end of the article, possible preventive measures against this specific crime are also discussed.<\/p>\n