Add to ORKGin English This thesis focuses on the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment, which has been incorporated in Czech criminal procedure code by the Act No. 193/2012 Coll. with effectuality from 1st September 2012. The main purposes of the incorporation of the agreement on guilt and punishment in Czech legal system were the acceleration and better efficiency of criminal proceedings and unloading the courts. Besides introduction and ending this thesis is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter deals with the diversions in Czech criminal proceedings. The second chapter is addressed to the excursus into world history of plea bargaining, the third chapter introduces the early stages of agreement on guilt and punishment in Czech ...