The Criminal Punishment of Sexual Abuse in the First Czechoslovak Republic and its Effects on the Subsequent Development of the Legal System
The Criminal Punishment of Sexual Abuse in the First Czechoslovak Republic and its Effects on the Subsequent Development of the Legal System

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews the punishment of the sexual abuse of juveniles in the law of the Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1992). It maps and traces the development of the constituent elements relevant to the sexual abuse of juveniles and analyses the reasons for the changes that they underwent. It proceeds in stages from the issues raised by the Austrian Criminal Code of 1852 and the Hungarian Criminal Code of 1878, which were taken over in the territory of the “First Czechoslovak Republic”, through the definition of this class of crimes in the Draft Criminal Codes of 1926 and 1937, to the legislation on sexual abuse in socialist criminal law and the relevant provisions of the criminal codes of 1950 and 1961.

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