Novelizace českého trestního práva
Amendment of Czech criminal law

Summary/Abstract: This presentation deals with some of the most important changes in Czech criminal law during the last six years. The first part of the article contains the information concerning amendments of Penal Code, especially some questions of abolition of death penalty in 1990, introduction of life imprisonment, new conception of criminal responsibility in the case of the culpable insanity, alternative sanctions and criminal organizations. The second part deals with amendments of Code od Penal Procedure. In this presentation it is not possible to cover the entire changes, however, we would like to focus on the diversification of standard of proceeding which have already started to influence Czech criminal proceeding. Nowadays the strategy of diversion in considered a part of what is know as "the four D programme". These are diversion, decriminalization, deinstitutionalisation and due process. These are alternative proceeding available whereby their informal execution is more appropriate than the implementation of a classic criminal trial which results in a verdict of guilt and subsequent sentencing.

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