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The issue of life imprisonment
Svatoňová, Olga ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Herczeg, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present a comprehensive view of a rather complicated issue of life imprisonment, mainly from legal perspective. It also deals with some psychological and sociological aspects which accompany long-term imprisonment. Life imprisonment is the highest sanction which is regulated in the legal system of the Czech Republic. It is imposed only in case of enumerate crimes and on the conditions stated in the penal code. Life imprisonment has been the highest sanction in our legal system since the year 1990 when it replaced death penalty which is not in accordance with principles of a democratic legal state. Similarly to death penalty, life imprisonment also has many opponents and is connected with many problems and questions. The thesis tries to define some of these problems and to bring as many findings as possible, so that everybody can make their own opinion on this issue. The thesis consists of seven chapters which are then divided into subchapters. After the brief introduction, there is the first chapter which covers the penalty as such. It delimits the term and purpose of the penalty, explains how the penalty is understood, what the terms individual and general prevention mean. The chapter also includes an interpretation of the penalty system. The second chapter covers a...
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The issue of life imprisonment
Svatoňová, Olga ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (advisor) ; Herczeg, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present a comprehensive view of a rather complicated issue of life imprisonment, mainly from legal perspective. It also deals with some psychological and sociological aspects which accompany long-term imprisonment. Life imprisonment is the highest sanction which is regulated in the legal system of the Czech Republic. It is imposed only in case of enumerate crimes and on the conditions stated in the penal code. Life imprisonment has been the highest sanction in our legal system since the year 1990 when it replaced death penalty which is not in accordance with principles of a democratic legal state. Similarly to death penalty, life imprisonment also has many opponents and is connected with many problems and questions. The thesis tries to define some of these problems and to bring as many findings as possible, so that everybody can make their own opinion on this issue. The thesis consists of seven chapters which are then divided into subchapters. After the brief introduction, there is the first chapter which covers the penalty as such. It delimits the term and purpose of the penalty, explains how the penalty is understood, what the terms individual and general prevention mean. The chapter also includes an interpretation of the penalty system. The second chapter covers a...
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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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