Murder and manslaughter within the Czech criminal law

The crimes of murder and manslaughter described in this thesis consist in intentional killing of other person. These crimes are very serious ones and are contained in the first part of first chapter of Act No. 40/2009 Coll. the Criminal Code, as amended, and attack against one of the highest and the most protected interest - the human life. The aim of this thesis is to provide its reader with a rather complex and well arranged description of the above-mentioned crimes from the criminology and criminal law standpoint. The author tried to capture the most essential differences between the murder and manslaughter, both being often called the intentional killing. The author endeavors to briefly outline in this thesis a historical development of legal regulation of intentional killing from the past to the present day. The thesis also defines the human life, the moment of its commencement and termination as a crucial moment from which the crimes of murder and manslaughter are considered accomplished. Furthermore, it describes their basic and qualified facts of the case, a possibility of punishment of its offenders and individual phases of both crimes described in this thesis. The crimes are also covered from the criminology standpoint, criminology is characterized as a science, individual offenders of violent..