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Insanity: Comparison of Czech and Americal legal concept
Břenková, Anna ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
Insanity: Comparison of Czech and American legal concept Abstract The aim of this thesis is to capture the essence of the institute of insanity from the substantive point of view according to the Czech and American legislation and to deduce any differences from them. First, the continental legal system on which the Czech legal order is based is compared with the Anglo-American legal system from which the American legislation is derived. Subsequently, the basic pillars of the Czech legal order including the position of criminal law are defined. Attention is also paid to the political system of the United States, because, as a result of federalism, there are two levels of law that have a significant impact on national legislations. Hereupon, the structure of criminal liability according to Czech law is analyzed. Since the prerequisite of criminal liability is the commission of a criminal offense, this is also defined. For the purposes of comparison, circumstances excluding punishability as well as circumstances excluding liability are outlined. Due to the fact that US law is based on common law, criminal liability is defined both from the perspective of common law and the Model Penal Code, which are of the basic sources of US criminal law. Next part of the thesis is focused on the institute of insanity in the...
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Insanity: Comparison of Czech and Americal legal concept
Břenková, Anna ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
Insanity: Comparison of Czech and American legal concept Abstract The aim of this thesis is to capture the essence of the institute of insanity from the substantive point of view according to the Czech and American legislation and to deduce any differences from them. First, the continental legal system on which the Czech legal order is based is compared with the Anglo-American legal system from which the American legislation is derived. Subsequently, the basic pillars of the Czech legal order including the position of criminal law are defined. Attention is also paid to the political system of the United States, because, as a result of federalism, there are two levels of law that have a significant impact on national legislations. Hereupon, the structure of criminal liability according to Czech law is analyzed. Since the prerequisite of criminal liability is the commission of a criminal offense, this is also defined. For the purposes of comparison, circumstances excluding punishability as well as circumstances excluding liability are outlined. Due to the fact that US law is based on common law, criminal liability is defined both from the perspective of common law and the Model Penal Code, which are of the basic sources of US criminal law. Next part of the thesis is focused on the institute of insanity in the...
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Insanity - Comparison of Czech and Americal legal concept
Břenková, Anna ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
Insanity: Comparison of Czech and American legal concept Abstract The aim of this thesis is to capture the essence of the institute of insanity from the substantive point of view according to the Czech and American legislation and to deduce any differences from them. First, the continental legal system on which the Czech legal order is based is compared with the Anglo-American legal system from which the American legislation is derived. Subsequently, the basic pillars of the Czech legal order including the position of criminal law are defined. Attention is also paid to the political system of the United States, because, as a result of federalism, there are two levels of law that have a significant impact on national legislations. Hereupon, the structure of criminal liability according to Czech law is analyzed. Since the prerequisite of criminal liability is the commission of a criminal offense, this is also defined. For the purposes of comparison, circumstances excluding punishability as well as circumstances excluding liability are outlined. Due to the fact that US law is based on common law, criminal liability is defined both from the perspective of common law and the Model Penal Code, which are of the basic sources of US criminal law. Next part of the thesis is focused on the institute of insanity in the...
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Circumstances excluding punishability
Kabát, Robert ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (referee) ; Stibořík, Vladimír (referee)
214 SUMMARY Circumstances excluding punishability 1. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the nature of the circumstances, which are standardized in Czech criminal law, as circumstances excluding unlawfulness. Main focus is on two of them that, in both historical and international comparison, are not in all circumstances conceived as so-called justification (circumstance excluding unlawful- ness), but also as a reason for excluding subjective criminal liability (excuse). 2. The concepts of criminality, criminal liability and anti-legality in their various con- cepts, which can be found in the theory of criminal law, are first analyzed. Thus, in par- ticular, the concepts of formal and material criminality, formal and material unlawfulness, so-called criminal unlawfulness and special unlawfulness are clarified consecutively. The result of this investigation is the conclusion that unlawfulness is only one and expresses a contradiction with the whole legal order. This concept should be distinguished from the concepts of criminality (as attribute) and criminal liability. Unlawfulness is their condi- tion. In this general part, the place of unlawfulness in the system of elements of crime, and its functions in that system are analyzed. 3. In the second part, the thesis focuses generally on the...
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