Effective Repentance and Bribery

The topic of this diploma work is "Effective repentance and bribery". Effective repentance is a reason which causes an extinction of punish ability. There are two kinds of effective repentance. The first is a general effective repentance. The second is a specific effective repentance. General effective repentance causes impunity when offender of criminal act of listed crimes retrieved injury by his own will, or announced criminal act to prosecutor or police officer in time when should be injury retrieve. Specific effective repentance is codified for just a few crimes. One of these crimes, where specific effective repentance was codified is bribery. Bribery effective repentance means, that the offender of bribe giving will not be penal responsible if he gives or promises bribe, just because he was asked for bribe and if he (by his own will and immediately) announced this to a prosecutor or a police officer. In the past since 1950 we have had this specific repentance in criminal law. Since 1/1/2010 we have got a new criminal law no 40/2009 Sb. New codex no. 40/2009 Sb. despite original legislative proposal does not codify specific effective repentance in corruption cases. It was tried to describe historical aspects of effective repentance in context with development of criminal law in our country. In my..