Criminal Offences against Human Dignity and their Prevention

CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMAN DIGNITY AND THEIR PREVENTION Abstract This thesis details criminal offences against human dignity and their prevention. The primary objective of this thesis is to present a clear overview of the matter at hand - which is indeed very serious and detrimental to our society - as well as the individual criminal offences against human dignity stated in Act no. 40/2009 Coll., Criminal Code. The document is divided into four main chapters, and each of them provides details regarding different aspects of this topic. The introductory chapter defines the basic terminology necessary to gain an understanding of this topic. The second chapter analyses the perpetrators and victims of criminal offences against human dignity and clarifies the classification according to a variety of typologies and characteristics. Furthermore, it delves into the personality types of the perpetrators as well as their motives for committing criminal acts, and it also describes the process of victimization and the manner in which the victims should be handled. The main chapter of this thesis is divided into two sub-chapters and it mainly describes the detailed characteristics of individual constituent elements of criminal offences against human dignity. The first sub-chapter deals with sex crime and its..