The Issues of Exceptional Punishment

The Issues of Exceptional Punishment - Abstract The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview about a criminal law's legal institute of the exceptional punishment, comprising of its historical development in our territory, most of the matters regarding its applicable legal regulation in the Czech republic, analysis of a specific case in which this punishment had been imposed, comparison with selected foreign legal regulations also including a disputation on death penalty as its possible alternative. The first chapter is focused on defining the term of punishment and its function in general. It compares two basic theories that differ from each other in terms of distinct approaches to the punishment's purpose. While the absolute theory considers punishment a retribution, the relative theory regards it as a mean of resocialization of the perpetrator. However, the current concept of punishment is based on the mixed theory that constitutes a link between those two above-mentioned. The aim of this chapter is to define the specific purpose of the exceptional punishment that proceeds from the general purpose of punishment based on the mixed theory. With regard to the fact that the term of exceptional punishment needs to be construed in both time and territorial context, the second chapter is devoted..