Conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution is an institute that was introduced into Czech criminal procedure law more than twenty years ago. Over the years, this alternative way of handling criminal cases has become the most commonly used (in the last four years, the second most commonly used) means of all alternative ways called diversions. This diversion is used by both prosecutors and courts in cases of less serious criminal offenses. The point of conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution is the decision of the prosecutor or the court not to initiate criminal court proceedings or cease them under certain conditions, the most important of them being the offender reimbursing the injured party for the damages caused by the crime. The goal of the author of this thesis is to briefly write about the history of alternative ways of handling criminal cases and their introduction into Czech criminal law, then to move on to specifically discussing the institute of conditional discontinuance of criminal prosecution, the conditions that must be met for its use, the benefits it brings into Czech criminal law and criminal proceedings and to compare it with other types of diversions, as well as with the use of the same institute in Slovak criminal law under slightly different conditions. The...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:368904 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Plávková, Andrea |
| Contributors | Bohuslav, Lukáš, Vokoun, Rudolf |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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