The issues of juvenile criminal justice

This diploma thesis The issues of juvenile criminal justice focuses on the area of juvenile criminal law which is a specific area of criminal law due to a necessity of a particular attitude towards youth. The legal regulation of the juvenile criminal law is incorporated particularly in ActNo. 218/2003 Coll. on the Responsibility of Juveniles for illegal Acts and on the Justice of Youth. Within the theme, the work seeks to capture especially the deviations that are special for the juvenile criminal law as opposed to the criminal law of adult offenders and to present a comprehensive overview of criminal justice over youth. The most extensive part of the thesis deals with the juvenile proceedings, attention is also paid to the substantive aspects of the juvenile criminal law and a considerable part discusses the proceedings in the affairs of children under fifteen. The introductory chapter defines the basic concepts as applied by the Act on the Justice of Youth, especiallyterminologically definesthose that are subject to special treatment. The following two chapters give an overview of the criminological aspects of juvenile delinquency and also outline the development of the legal regulation of juvenile justice in the Czech lands and present the form of the current legal regulation including its..