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JSOU ODKLONY V TRESTNÍM ŘÍZENÍ SYMPTOMEM ZÁNIKU KLASICKÉHO TRESTNÍHO PRÁVA?
| Title in English | Are diversions in criminal procedrue a lapse-symptom of classical criminal law? |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | COFOLA 2010: the Conference Proceedings |
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| web | http://www.law.muni.cz/sborniky/cofola2010/files/sankce/Palovsky_Tomas__1678_.pdf |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | Diversion; criminal law and procedure; restorative justice; mediation; victim of crime |
| Description | The second half of the 20th century brings a new challenge to traditional concept of penal law. Someone talks about the „crisis of punishment paradigm", in connection with high recidivism rate, overcrowded corrective facilities, overloaded criminal justice system and lack of the attention to the victim of crime. Diversions, in term of the positive alternative to material decriminalization, represent a new type of state reaction on crimes that diminish stigmatization and improve the position of the victim. On the other hand, there is a danger of the devaluation of basic principles of penal law (ultima ratio principle). Would it be a true penal law, if the punishment lose its crucial position and becomes one among many types of sanctions? |