Srovnání ekonomické efektivity vězeňství a alternativních trestů v ČR a Nizozemsku v letech 2010–2020

This bachelor thesis deals with the comparison of the economic efficiency of unconditional prison sentences in the Czech Republic and alternative punishments in the Netherlands between 2010 and 2020. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the fiscal and societal impacts of both sanctioning approaches based on cost-benefit analysis. The results of the analysis show that the Czech system generates high mandatory expenditures and exhibits a recidivism rate exceeding 60%, making it allocatively inefficient. In contrast, the Dutch model demonstrates that the use of community sanctions reduces direct state costs and, by protecting human capital and maintaining offenders‘ ties to the labor market, achieves a significantly lower rate of reoffending. The added value of the thesis lies in the synthesis of theoretical knowledge with empirical data and in the proprietary modelling of potential budget savings. The work enriches current knowledge with a quantification proving that even under a conservative scenario of diverting 10% of the Czech prison population to alternative punishments, the state budget saves more than one billion CZK annually. The thesis thus provides exact economic arguments for the reform of Czech penal policy.