The Methodology of Robbery Investigation

The Methodology of Robbery Investigation Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the methodology of robbery investigation, specifically with its selected components of the investigation. The selected parts are criminalistic characteristic of robberies, the typical ways of committing robberies divided according to the intensity of aggression and the typical evidence. The thesis provides with a deeper insight into these parts of the investigation process, captures their specifics and provides a comparison with foreign literature. The presented thesis is divided into four chapters, which are related and follow each other. The first chapter presents the crime of robbery, as regulated in Act No. 40/2009 Coll., The Criminal Code, and its position in the current Czech legal system. It outlines the subject of the methodology from the point of view of criminal law. The second chapter deals with the criminalistic characteristic of robberies. In the individual subchapters, it discusses the criminal situation, the typical ways of committing robberies, the offender and the victim of robbery, and finally deals with the motive of the criminal act and the criteria for selecting the victim. This chapter provides number of statistics related to robberies. The subchapter focusing on the typical ways of committing robberies,..