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The issue of life imprisonment
Polívková, Michaela ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the issue of the life imprisonment and the main aim is to analyze this punishment in Czech legal environment and to point the possible improvements that could be done in this legal area. Since this kind of punishment has been involved in Czech system of punishments for only 24 years now, it gives enough space for its study and that is why I chose it as the topic of my thesis. This thesis consists of six main chapters. In the first one my task was to enlighten the meaning of the basic terms which are necessary to apprehend in order to be able to understand the problematic of punishments in general. Other half of this chapter is dedicated to the evolution of understanding the term "punishment" itself and the main opinions of the prominent philosophers such as Cesare Beccaria, Ch.L.Montesquieu, J. Locke and others. Second chapter describes the history of the highest penalty and criminal law in general in Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic in the years 1918 - 2009. In this period of time the significant historical events influenced the Czech law, especially the creation of independent Czechoslovak republic, the period of World War II, consequential rise of communism and its fall more than 50 years later..All of these events had main significance for the journey to death...
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Sentence od Life Imprisonment
PEČENKOVÁ, Kateřina
Life imprisonment presents the most severe penalty that can be imposed according to the Czech legislation. It belongs to the system of capital punishments and the extreme severity of its imposition is subject to the legislator himself. In the Czech Republic, the imposition of life imprisonment is a unique phenomenon. A meticulous attention should be thereby paid to its legislation, which is exceptionally complex in the Czech Republic. It is equally important to provide persons who are serving the term of life imprisonment with social services, aid and a social worker, who plays one of the most important roles in the life of the convicted. The social worker enables the convicted to communicate with the social environment outside the penitentiary, to communicate with public administration bodies and, in addition, he provides the convicted with follow-up social services after his/her release or while serving the term. These services aim at the quality improvement of the life of the convicted. This bachelor thesis presents a document that may serve future social workers in the prison service as a supplementary material to their studies and work. It includes the overview of important information that the specific social worker should know and subsequently develop. This thesis encompasses the legislation of both - life imprisonment and social work and associated rights and duties. Moreover, this thesis defines specific terms that the social worker should know and understand - the treatment of prisoners and treatment programmes in particular. The thesis followed the method of document analysis, the analysis of laws, judicature, scholarly journals and books. It synthetises pieces of information that are necessary for a social worker to know and understand. The legislation of life imprisonment is carefully drafted in the Czech Republic, which tremendously helped me with dealing with related laws and regulations. 7 On the other hand, what surprised me was a lack of documents related to the legislation governing the social work in the prison service. In my opinion, this lack of documents in the designated area needs to be completed.
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The issue of life imprisonment
Polívková, Michaela ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the issue of the life imprisonment and the main aim is to analyze this punishment in Czech legal environment and to point the possible improvements that could be done in this legal area. Since this kind of punishment has been involved in Czech system of punishments for only 24 years now, it gives enough space for its study and that is why I chose it as the topic of my thesis. This thesis consists of six main chapters. In the first one my task was to enlighten the meaning of the basic terms which are necessary to apprehend in order to be able to understand the problematic of punishments in general. Other half of this chapter is dedicated to the evolution of understanding the term "punishment" itself and the main opinions of the prominent philosophers such as Cesare Beccaria, Ch.L.Montesquieu, J. Locke and others. Second chapter describes the history of the highest penalty and criminal law in general in Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic in the years 1918 - 2009. In this period of time the significant historical events influenced the Czech law, especially the creation of independent Czechoslovak republic, the period of World War II, consequential rise of communism and its fall more than 50 years later..All of these events had main significance for the journey to death...
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The issue of life imprisonment
Březinová, Kristýna ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
ISSUE OF THE LIFE IMPRISONMENT SUMMARY The purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyse the issue of life incarceration and some of the matters, which are related to this kind of punishment. I have decided to choose this topic because I have always been interested in the question of how society should punish the most serious crimes. Moreover, this punishment was introduced into the Czech legal framework not that long time ago, so in my opinion, there is still much space for its improvement. The life incarceration, which is the severest punishment possible within the Czech legal frame-work can be imposed by court only in the cases of the most serious crimes such as aggravated murder, terrorist attack or high treason. It was implemented in 1990 by the Criminal Code Amendment Act, which abolished the death penalty and replaced it with the life sentence. This thesis is divided into seven main chapters. The first part defines the basic terms, also it explains the purpose of punishment and deals with the system of punishments available according to our Criminal Code. Next chapter shows us briefly the evolution of punishments, especially of the life imprisonment, from the oldest civilizations up to the present. The third and fourth part are the core parts of this thesis, because they concern with the actual...
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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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