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Economic Criminality

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0347/07
Abbreviation EKr
Course title Economic Criminality
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator Dr Mgr. Michal Kozieł, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

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

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 .