The principle of subsidiarity in a criminal law Summary The Master's degree thesis analyzes the principle of subsidiarity in a criminal law as an actual topic beacause this principle is included in the new czech penal code in art. 12 para 2: "The crime responsibility and its consequences can be applied only in social harmful cases if an application of an other kind of a law responsibility is insufficient." However before the new penal code was passed the czech Constitutional Court and Supreme Court had dealed with the principle of subsidiarity in a criminal law in their judgments. The first chapter reports on a general definition of the principle of subsidiarity and the ultima ratio principle and concludes that the phrasing in the citied art. 12 para 2 is too "thin" because the criminal law should be subsidiary not only to the other law but also to the all social tools. The second chapter deals with the principle of subsidiarity as a rule for an interpretation. In the new czech penal code this principle can be used only for the interpretation of these words describing crimes which are not expressed to unequivocal. The next chapter refers to the german "theory of law goods" (Rechtsgutstheorie) and the term social harm. The judgements of the german Constitutional Court are taken into consideration. The...

Criminal custody as an ultima ratio instrument This thesis deals with a criminal custody which is considered as the most serious instrument within criminal procedural security measures which should be used by law enforcement authorities only in the most extreme cases when all of the legal conditions are strictly fulfilled. One of the purposes of this thesis is to explicate, through personal freedom and presumption of innocence both guaranteed by the Czech Constitution and both significantly affected by custody, the importance of using this instrument only in situations without any other solution when is impossible to reach the purpose of criminal proceedings by using some of the more lenient measures, it means to use the custody just as an ultima ratio instrument. A crucial part of this thesis pays attention to the individual legal conditions of current effective legislation that should ensure observance of this principle also in practice. In the mentioned part the procedure of the authorities deciding on custody is analysed in detail that authorities firstly must resolve the question if the prosecution of a specific person is justified and if a certain specific degree of suspicion is achieved proving that this one perpetrated an offence. After that is necessary to investigate the existence of...

Current issues of custody within Czech criminal proceedings Abstract This submitted thesis describes custody's current issues within Czech criminal proceedings. The custody is an established and irreplaceable institute that has been for a long time a traditional part of criminal proceedings. Due to the nature of this institute, representing a major interference with personal freedom of the individual, it is still widely discussed not only by experts but also attracts the attention of the general public. The thesis itself consists of five consecutive chapters. The first chapter defines the concept and purpose of the custody, considering its basic principles. The following second chapter includes a brief description of custody's historical development in the Czech Republic, but the chapter also serves as an introduction to understanding the current legislation. In addition, the valid regulation is the one of 1961, which has undergone several changes since its adoption. The third chapter deals with the material concept of custody law, i.e. the legal conditions for the custody imposition and the analysis of individual reasons for it, trying to capture the bottlenecks of the related law. The fourth chapter describes some aspects of formal custody law, which characterizes the processes of authorized bodies in...

The Principle of Subsidiarity of Criminal Repression Abstract This Master's Thesis deals with the principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression, one of the basic principles of substantive criminal law, which was first enacted in the Czech criminal law as lately as in the new 2009 Criminal Code. The principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression is expressed by the fact that the means of criminal law can be applied only in socially harmful cases where the application of criminal liability is not sufficient under another legal enactment. Simultaneously, this principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression expresses the nature of criminal law as a means of the ultima ratio, i.e. the ultimate solution. After the introduction of the functions and purpose of the criminal law itself in terms of historical development and present, an analysis of the valid legal regulation of the principle of the subsidiarity of criminal repression is presented. Adoption of the principle of the subsidiarity of criminal repression into the new Criminal Code has led to an unprecedented wide-ranging discussion of its importance in criminal law, especially its impact on the issues of the basis of criminal liability. The problems often mentioned in this discussion are in particular dealt with in the chapter on the concept of crime,...

O presente trabalho se dedica a estudar o surgimento e critérios de aplicação que envolvem a incidência do princípio da insignificância. Serão analisados, para tanto, os conceitos do chamado direito penal de mínima intervenção, que prega o respeito à ultima ratio do Direito Penal. Demonstra, desta forma, que a Constituição vigente, ainda que não refira expressamente o principio da insignificância, o legitima por meio dos demais princípios. Demonstra, ainda, que a aplicação do princípio está em consonância com os preceitos de uma intervenção penal minimamente necessária. / The present work aims to study the emergence and criteria for applying the principle of insignificance. Therefore, will be analyzed the concepts of criminal law called minimal intervention, which advocates respect for the ultima ratio of the Criminal Law. Thus, demonstrates that the current Constitution, though not explicitly refer to the principle of insignificance, legitimized it through the principles of others. It also demonstrates that the principle is in line with the precepts of a criminal intervention minimally required.

O presente trabalho se dedica a estudar o surgimento e critérios de aplicação que envolvem a incidência do princípio da insignificância. Serão analisados, para tanto, os conceitos do chamado direito penal de mínima intervenção, que prega o respeito à ultima ratio do Direito Penal. Demonstra, desta forma, que a Constituição vigente, ainda que não refira expressamente o principio da insignificância, o legitima por meio dos demais princípios. Demonstra, ainda, que a aplicação do princípio está em consonância com os preceitos de uma intervenção penal minimamente necessária. / The present work aims to study the emergence and criteria for applying the principle of insignificance. Therefore, will be analyzed the concepts of criminal law called minimal intervention, which advocates respect for the ultima ratio of the Criminal Law. Thus, demonstrates that the current Constitution, though not explicitly refer to the principle of insignificance, legitimized it through the principles of others. It also demonstrates that the principle is in line with the precepts of a criminal intervention minimally required.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:27:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Cristina Barrilari.pdf: 1245904 bytes, checksum: e6a080b3b15abef2fca49d55e1a30771 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-07 / The highlight currently given to danger crimes, allied to the organize criminality increase, are strong triggering factors of the focus received by gang crimes at the current moment. The caselaw analysis of the mentioned criminal offense makes it possible to conclude that incriminations due to gangs has been vulgarized , in order to proliferate denounces due to gang that do not culminate or should not culminate in conviction, as the strict occurrence of their normative elements. The offense type, either for being open or for prescinding material results, assumed an evident secondary plan, which cause an evident unbalance in the criminal law fundamental principles compliance. Thus, we intend to conduct the present work analyzing those two factors, danger crimes and criminal association, and the consequences derived from, of the one side, leaving the punitive legitimacy aside, with the criminal law assuming an eminently social control function; of the other side, it is sought the gang crime legitimacy and the adequate dogmatic use of danger crimes, supported by the guaranty criminal law, guided by the human being maximum protection. The topic is arduous, mainly in face of the violence escalation, a phenomenon of the current times. Maybe the current jurist concern should be to conciliate the human person defense, in its strictest acceptation since Enlightenment, with the criminal treatment hardening as an appropriate mechanism for violence containment. The risk increment to which the current society is exposed cannot be despised. Violence assumes varied forms, and it is in this context that the criminal advance relief is verified, as an attempt to contain crime at its embryonary moment. In crimes of diffuse objectivity, the advance relief is potentialized based on the belief that this is the only way to effectively protect the juridical stead. At the other end, what is fought is the damage verification in a diffuse way, the relation between a crime and a determined victim is replaced with collective or even undetermined victimization. The magnitude generated by the involved interest or by the possibility of affecting innumerous victims requires the maximum protection of the stead, so that, in the name of an illusory efficiency, it be compatible only with advance relief up to the limit at which the protected stead is not under any risk threat. This can be verified in certain environmental crimes, for instance. The main issue consists in finding a balance point, that is, in discovering as from which moment the criminal advance relief actuation, especially in reference to gang crimes. This question is directly related to the classic conception of criminal law as the normative system ultima ratio / O destaque que se dá atualmente aos crimes de perigo, aliado ao aumento da criminalidade organizada, são fatores desencadeadores da ênfase que os crimes de quadrilha ou bando vêm recebendo no momento atual. A análise jurisprudencial do mencionado delito permite concluir que a incriminação por quadrilha ou bando vem sendo vulgarizada de modo a proliferar denúncias por quadrilha ou bando que não culminam, ou não deveriam culminar, em condenação, por não se observar a estrita realização de seus elementos normativos. O tipo do delito, seja por ser aberto, seja por prescindir do resultado material, assumiu evidente plano secundário, o que causa patente desequilíbrio na observância dos princípios basilares do direito penal. Assim, pretende-se conduzir o presente trabalho analisando esses dois fatores, crimes de perigo e associação criminosa, e as conseqüências que se extraem, de um lado, afastando-se da legitimidade punitiva, assumindo o direito penal função eminentemente de controle social; de outro lado, procura-se a legitimação do crime de quadrilha ou bando e a adequada utilização dogmática dos crimes de perigo, com apoio no direito penal garantístico, orientado pela máxima proteção da pessoa humana. O tema é árduo, principalmente em face da escalada da violência, fenômeno dos tempos atuais. Talvez a preocupação do jurista atual deva ser conciliar a defesa da pessoa humana, em sua mais intransigente acepção desde o Iluminismo, com o endurecimento do tratamento penal, como mecanismo apropriado para a contenção da violência. Não se pode desprezar o incremento do risco a que se vê exposta a sociedade atual. A violência assume variadas formas e é nesse contexto que se verifica a antecipação da tutela penal, como tentativa de conter o crime no seu momento embrionário. Nos crimes de objetividade difusa, o mecanismo da antecipação da tutela é potencializado com base na crença de que só assim é possível a efetiva proteção do bem jurídico. Na outra ponta, o que se combate é a verificação do dano de forma difusa, a relação entre um crime e vítima determinada é substituída pela vitimização coletiva ou até mesmo indeterminada. A magnitude gerada pelo interesse envolvido ou pela possibilidade de atingir inúmeras vítimas, requer a máxima proteção do bem, de modo que, em nome de uma ilusória eficiência, seja compatível apenas com a antecipação da tutela até o limite em que não haja qualquer ameaça de risco ao bem tutelado. É o que se verifica em determinados crimes ambientais, a título de exemplo. A questão principal consiste em encontrar um ponto de equilíbrio, ou seja, em descobrir a partir de que momento é legítima a atuação da tutela penal, especialmente no que se refere ao crime de quadrilha ou bando. Esta indagação está diretamente relacionada à clássica concepção do direito penal como ultima ratio do sistema normativo