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The issue of life imprisonment
Slámová, Petra ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Herczeg, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to provide varied informations relating to life imprisonment sentence and to penetrate into the issue of the life imprisonment, not only from the legal aspects, but also from philosophical, criminological, psychological and social aspects. The penalty of a life imprisonment is the toughest possible criminal penalty in the legislation of the Czech Republic. It replaced the death penalty, which was abolished in 1990, in accordance with the principles of the democratic rule of law having respect for basic human rights. It is an extraordinary punishment, imposed only for the most serious crimes. But as the death penalty, the life imprisonment is a sentence with a number of problems. In seven chapters of this thesis I will try to define these problems. Chapter One contains the necessary interpretation of the concept of punishment, its purpose and describes the system of penalties. Innermost purpose of life sentence is the isolation of the offender from a society and thus preventing recidivism. Due to most felt injury life sentence causes, fulfill the retaliation claim and demand of deterrence. However, despite the significant barrier function of this sentence, there is an educational function of punishment too, because the possibility of conditional release expected the...
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