Media and criminal procedure

The theoretical part of the Bachelor thesis covers legal circumstances regarding a media activity of providing information about criminal procedures. First, it describes the principles of the constitutional law, specifically, the right of information, the prohibition of censorship, and freedom of speech. Then, it analyzes the concept of a criminal procedure and its basic principles. Mainly, it describes the public policy of the trial and the presumption of innocence. The main part of the thesis analyzes individual provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which regulate the range of publishable information about criminal procedures, the offender and the victim. Separately, the same problem is described according to the Code of Judiciary with Youth. The practical part of this thesis uses quantitative and qualitative content analyses of the articles from two Czech magazines - Právo and Blesk. The quantitative analysis examines the topic of this thesis through statistical and mathematical methods. The qualitative analysis researches individual articles and focuses on compliance with the law