Comparison of Civil and Common law in the area of chosen criminal offences

This bachelor thesis deals with the comparison of Criminal law of two dominant legal systems. The goal of this thesis is to disclose a difference between criminal rules of law of Civil and Common law. At the beginning there is an adumbration of historical evolution of both legal systems and also reasons, why both systems evolved differently. Afterwards individual diversities of both legal systems are mentioned, mainly in the area of criminal law. Next part of the thesis is devoted to recent criminal regulations. With regard to its extensiveness, this bachelor thesis deals only with Czech and English criminal law. It also deals with the structure of division of criminal offence and solves the question, whether it is better to codify the criminal law or not. Last part of this thesis is to compare the criminal offences. This part contains six criminal offences, which interfere with many areas of human life, including murder, fraud or blackmail