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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Economic Criminality

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0347/03
Abbreviation EKr
Course title Economic Criminality
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator JUDr. Bohuslav Halfar

Subject syllabus

1. Economical criminal law
Introduction. Economical and legal reasons and consewuences of criminality. Statistical data evaluation. .
2. Basis of criminal responsibility.
Crime. Culpability. Crime developmental stage. Participation on crimes. Circumstances eliminating illegality.
3. Sentencing and penalties execution and protective measures.
Term and purpose of penalties. Penalties sorts. Protective treatments. Correction, thing seize.
4.Crimes against economical system
Unauthorized trading. Consumer damaging, violation of goods circulation rules within international relation etc. .
5. Crimes against economical discipline
Data falsification as for assets management. Obligations abuse in bankrupt process. Violation of rules in economical relations. Information abuse in business relation etc.
6. Crimes against currency
Money falsification and changing. use of forged and changed money. Prohibition violation within the period of emergency conditions in currency economy.
7. Crimes against taxes
Tax, social welfare, health insurance, state policy of employment contribution non-diversion. Tax reduction, fees or similar obligatory payments.
8. Crime against unfair competition, trade marks, protected specimen, inventions and intellectual property and copyrights. Unfair competition, industrial rights violation
9. Crimes against property
Theft, misappropriation, fraud, insurance fraud, credit fraud etc.
10. Crimes against property
Copartnership, usury, misprision of thing, violation of obligation of administration of other´s property
11. Crimes against property
Abuse of creditor. Favouritism of creditor. overindebtedness.
12. other crimes related to economical practice
Public threat. Environment threat. Damaging and threat of publicly beneficial facility etc. .
13. Criminal process
Basic rules of criminal process. Common rules on criminal process. Crimes investigation. Judicial process.
14. Recodification
Evaluation of current legal regulation of economical criminality and judicial process. Changes being prepared. Discussion..

Literature

MITSILEGAS, Valsamis, Alberto DI MARTINO a Leandro MANCANO, ed. The Court of Justice and European criminal law: leading cases in a contextual analysis. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5099-1117-2 .
POLLOCK, Joycelyn M. Criminal law. Twelfth edition. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-46620-6 .
STAHN, Carsten. A critical introduction to international criminal law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-108-43639-7 .

Advised literature

BUTTON, Mark, Branislav HOCK a David SHEPHERD. Economic crime: from conception to response. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-0-367-53386-1 .
COBHAM, Alex a Petr JANSKÝ. Estimating illicit financial flows: a critical guide to the data, methodologies and findings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-885441-8 .
JELÍNEK, Jiří a Jozef ZÁHORA. Sanctions under criminal law. Budapest: Wolters Kluwer, 2019. ISBN 978-963-295-901-6 .