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Criminal Complaints and its Significance in Criminology
Pipek, Tomáš ; Hořák, Jaromír (advisor) ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
Criminal Complaints and its Significance in Criminology Abstract Criminal reporting is the most important source of initial information on criminal offences for law enforcement authorities. The number of filed criminal complaints and the willingness of the public to report crimes affect the number of initiated criminal proceedings, prosecutions and convicted offenders, i.e., the fight of the state (or society) against crime, directly. The institute of criminal complaints is examined in terms of law, criminology, sociology, and psychology. Finally, the real role of criminal complaints in the fight against crime is identified through statistics. The topic of the thesis is the criminological significance of reporting crimes. Within the thesis, the concept of criminal complaints is introduced and legally classified as a way in which the law enforcement authorities learn about the facts indicating that a crime has been committed. The requirements of the criminal complaint and the consequences of any formal and content deficiencies are mentioned, too. There are also discussed the obligations to make and receive a criminal complaint, the procedure, and ways of settlement, but also to the unlawful acts which the reporters may commit when making criminal complaints. The thesis also pays attention to the reporters...
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