Victims of Domestic Violence, Particularly Criminological and Criminal Law Aspects

The aim of the thesis was to summarize the issue of the victims of domestic violence in the Czech Republic, including the legal development of the recent years, concerning particularly the criminological aspects of the issue as well as the criminal law aspects. The opening part deals with defining concepts such as domestic violence, victims, aggressors, their personal psychological aspects and legal terms - endangered person ("ohrožená osoba") and violent person ("násilná osoba"). The second main section of the thesis pays attention to the legislation on the help and support given to the victims of domestic violence in the Czech Republic, not only dealing with the immediate help given by the police and the judiciary in the form of the order-out decision of the aggressors from the common home, but dealing with the longterm psychological and social support offered by the intervention centers as well. The third basic part of the work focuses on the criminal law aspects of the domestic violence phenomenon, particularly current practice of the courts and rights of the victims as the aggrieved parties in the criminal procedure. It is followed by the present legal development on the field of passing the bill on the issue of victims of the criminal acts that has been a topic of discussions in the Czech..