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Human Trafficking in Russia in European and international context
Pojman, Petr ; Kubát, Michal (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee)
In this work I deal mainly with tree aspects of human trafficking in Russian Federation. In the criminological perspective I focused on the process in which women become victim of human trafficking. Likewise, I am trying to characterize organized crime and principles of its operation in Russia. Both of these aspects are described in the context of security, political, economic and social situation in both the destination and source regions. Russia is due to its social, economic and geographical situation transit, source and destination country simultaneously. I specifically focused on international trafficking. National trafficking is more latent but it is mentioned in the context of international one. I deal with the situation of victims in particular contexts, which is uses by organized crime to obtain them. There is brief outline of their role in investigating of cases of human trafficking. The main theme of this work is a criminal organization. I especially deal with the ways in which criminal organizations are involved in illegal migration and trafficking women outside the territory of the Russian Federation. The work is conceived primarily as a description and analysis of the broader issues related to human trafficking in Russia, particularly in international and European context. Usually do...
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Organized crime-trafficking with human being
Jelenová, Jana ; Musil, Jan (advisor) ; Štourač, Petr (referee)
Organized crime - Trafficking in human beings This thesis deals with the criminal offence of trafficking in human beings under Sec. 168 of the Czech Criminal Code. A trafficking in human being is not a frequent criminal offence but with its consequences belongs to the most dangerous crimes. After the Velvet revolution the relevance of this crime has raised subsequently and therefore the regulation of this crime requires particular attention. It is important to find new ways and improve current methods to be readier to detect and investigate the cases of trafficking in human beings. The aim of this thesis is to provide an analysis of legal regulation of trafficking in human beings, organized crimed and methods of investigation and some related issues such as problematic of the protection of the witness. This thesis consists of three chapters. The first one deals shortly with the organized crime. It analyzes the term of the organized crime, because trafficking in human beings is usually committed by organized groups. I try to explain some basic terms related to this topic. The second one deals with the legal regulation of trafficking in human beings. The history, present and future of the legal regulation in the Czech Republic and in the other countries are described in this chapter. Then it is...
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The instruments of criminal law in the fight against organized crime
Schramhauser, Jan ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Sváček, Jan (referee) ; Ivor, Jaroslav (referee)
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Právnická fakulta Katedra trestního práva DISERTAČNÍ PRÁCE TRESTNĚPRÁVNÍ NÁSTROJE BOJE S ORGANIZOVANÝM ZLOČINEM Vedoucí disertační práce: Prof. JUDr. Jiří Jelínek, CSc. Zpracovatel: JUDr. Jan Schramhauser English summary This dissertation thesis addresses the issue of organised crime and the selected primarily criminal-law tools intended for the fight against organised crime. The thesis consists of four parts divided into individual chapters and sections. Having mainly a criminological focus, the introductory part defines organised crime and groups aimed at commission of such crime. It analyses certain definitions available from the Czech and foreign literature, compares them and discusses whether it is possible to define organised crime uniformly and universally. Afterwards it specifies the basic features of organised criminal groups, provides their characteristics and includes a brief excurse into selected criminal organisations. The first part also describes the historical development of certain criminal groups up to now and examines, in particular, the causes and the circumstances of the organised crime expansion in the Czech Republic after 1989, its main activities in our country and other issues. It refers to the legislation which was very insufficient at that time, the...
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Cooperating defendant
Pluhařová, Nikola ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
The aim of this thesis is the analysis of a cooperating defendant as a legal instrument of combating organized crime not only in the law regulations of the Czech Republic, but also in the laws of other European countries. This thesis also outlines the origin and development of this institution, both in the international context and in the context of the Czech legislation, including amendments and proposals de lege ferenda. In my work I am also comparing the Czech legislation with specific national legislations. I also mention some interesting legal cases that relate to these issues and present the views of the scientific capacities and respected experts. The thesis is divided into five chapters, which are complemented by introduction and conclusion. The first chapter deals with the historical development of the institute, both in the Czech Republic and in the territories of other states. The second chapter deals with the Czech legislation, the introduction of the institute, and amendments regarding also the laws outside of the Criminal Procedure Code. I also bring up some of the views of experts who evaluate the institute from various angles and express their opinion de lege ferenda. The third chapter presents the problems of organized crime, a topic closely related; institute of cooperating...
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Ekonomika organizovaného zločinu: Přímé zahraniční investice v Latinské Americe a Karibiku
Tošovský, Štěpán ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Jackson, Ian (referee)
This paper attempts to investigate the degree to which organized crime affects FDI in 15 Latin America and Caribbean countries during 2006-2014 period. We employed four crime proxies: homicide rate, organized crime index, business cost of terrorism index and business cost of crime index and analyzed their impact on overall, sectoral and industrial FDI inflows. We find evidence of a deterrent effect of organized crime on FDI inflows; in particular on FDI in secondary and tertiary sectors. On the contrary FDI inflows in more extractive industries - primary sector - are less affected by the presence of organized crime
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The Economic Consequences of Organized Crime
Kunt, Lukáš ; Polišenský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Pavel, Pavel (referee)
Summary
This thesis deals with the significance of the threat that organized crime poses to society. The aim is to provide an overview of its present forms and economic impact. In the theoretical part, there is an outline of basic terms associated with organized crime, its traditional and new forms, the most influential organized crime groups and their history regarding the Czech Republic and the EU and institutions that fight them. The empirical part focuses on the issue of illegal drugs. Drugs smuggling and illegal drug trade are defined from the perspective of criminology. Using addictology and police statistics, the features of illegal drug market are described. Comparing various facts, the crackdown on illegal drugs in the Czech Republic and the EU is analysed, and from statistical data - applying mathematical methods - the value of illegal drug market is estimated. Economic impact of chosen forms of organized crime is described by the assessment of their share in GDP and economy in general. In the conclusion of this thesis, some measures that could reduce the social and economic
impact are drawn.
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Trafficking in human beings in the Czech republic
Kovaříková, Ilona ; Polišenský, Miroslav (advisor)
The Diploma thesis deals with the problematics of trafficking in human beings in the Czech republic since the association with the EU Member States and Schengen Associated Countries. The inner boundaries police control has been cancelled and that caused a dramatic rise in this illegal trade. The practical part of the thesis contents gathered news about trafficking in human beings in the Czech republic published by the Ministry of Interrior. The last part of the thesis deals with the financial investigation particularly led by the Government of the Czech republic and the influence of this business activity on the economics of the state.
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Legalization of proceeds from crime
Kříž, Lukáš ; Hřebík, František (advisor) ; Markéta, Markéta (referee)
The thesis deals with issues of legalization of proceeds of crime in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part is focused on defining terms and analysis of the general characteristics of organized crime, including its development since the late 20th century to the present. Further detail is aimed at analysis of the crime of money laundering focusing on stages of the process of money laundering.
The practical part describes the recover the proceeds of crime and compares previous and amended legal provisions concerning this issue. Further analyzes the statistical data of economic crime in the Czech Republic between 2008 and 2015, with a forecast of the years 2016 to 2018 and describes the analysis of actual cases of money laundering. At the end of the work deals with a summary findings and compare the characteristic features of the process of money laundering with the real practices recorded on specific cases.
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The economic consequences of organized crime
Vosyka, Jaroslav ; Polišenský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Gabriela, Gabriela (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with organized crime and its economic consequences, where the theoretical part is first tangentially history of organized crime, discusses the definition of basic concepts, definitions of organized crime with links to economic organized crime group structures and their typical criminal activity, crime. In conclusion, the theoretical part is dedicated to the fight against organized crime, its resources and authorities.
In the empirical part of the dissertation deals with the analysis of official documents and statistical reports, using qualitative research study of primary data, method of studying documents. In the first part for a better understanding of the issue will analyze selected cases - casuistry. Following the case studies of work followed by an analysis of statistical reports focusing on damages, proceeds of crime and the possible provision of such proceeds according to law.
The overall concept of the work refers to the typical attributes, methods of committing crimes, modus operandi, the consequences of organized crime, with a possible proposal to tackle the issue.
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Organized crime in the Czech Republic
Jelínek, Martin ; Polišenský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Gabriela, Gabriela (referee)
Diploma thesis is focused on "Organized crime in the Czech Republic", includes a theoretical part and research. The teoretical part defines the notion of organized crime and the types of groups that perpetrated. Furthermore, the work presents the most common forms of organized crime and institutions such used to fight both nationally and internationally. Finally, there is outlined the situation in the Czech Republic and those groups that are in our country most often perpetrated by organized crime now.
Research part examines whether the frequency of articles on the subject in the selected journal corresponds to the actual situation and widespread forms of organized crime in the Czech republic in 2015. The context was given to data obtained from the content analysis of the largest number of articles of particular forms of organized crime and was compared with interviews carried out by experts estimates and research. The result was that the data corresponds with 2/3 and the only major difference became violent organized crime, which occurred in a number of articles on second place, but it is no longer among the most frequent activities of organized groups in the Czech Republic.
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