Stalking - criminal and criminological aspects

This dissertation deals with today still actual phenomenon called stalking, not only with it's more serious form known as a dangerous stalking but even its less serious forms. The work is systematically divided into three key parts - the first one focuses on a term definition followed by the part dealing with criminal points of view and the last one concentrates on criminological aspects. The introductory chapter contains some of the most famous definitions trying to define a difference between a stalking and a dangerous stalking. The readers are as well informed about the history of stalking and its possible forms to make it easy to understand the problem on a common level. The second part is dedicated to a criminal level of stalking. It detailly focuses on a quite interesting process of incorporation of a dangerous stalking offence into a law system of the Czech Republic. It also provides a list of possible sanctions of a stalker before an antistalking legislation introduction (it means before the year 2009). The second part of my work deals with a complex analysis of facts of the case according to the enactment §354 of the Criminal Law that is compared with some foreign norms in which it has found an inspiration. Of course, the analysis of the Supreme Court judicature is not missing here. The..