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Economic Criminality

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Course Unit Code119-0347/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated3 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
HAL30JUDr. Bohuslav Halfar
KRU53Ing. Martina Krügerová, Ph.D.
Summary
To present students criminal-law aspects of entrepreneurship and point out situations, when incorrectly provided business activities can constitute a crime.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
- to analyze criminal-legal aspects of business
- to assess when incorrectly provided business activities can constitute a crime,
- to describe the facts of specific crimes,
- to categorise crimes,
- to practically apply gained knowledge.
Course Contents
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..
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
JELÍNEK, Jiří. Trestní právo hmotné: obecná část, zvláštní část. 8. aktualizované vydání. Praha: Leges, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7502-576-0.
NOVOTNÝ, František. Trestní právo: aktuální otázky. Praha: Policejní akademie České republiky v Praze, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7251-492-2.
POLLOCK, Joycelyn M. Criminal law. Twelfth edition. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-46620-6.
Recommended Reading:
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.
KOTLÁN, Pavel. Ekonomická kriminalita očima policejního orgánu. Praha: Leges, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7502-488-6.
ŠÁMAL, Pavel, Tomáš GŘIVNA, Lukáš BOHUSLAV, Oto NOVOTNÝ, Jiří HERCZEG a Marie VANDUCHOVÁ. Trestní právo hmotné. 9., přepracované vydání. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7598-764-8.
ŠELLENG, Dalibor. Právnická osoba jako pachatel trestného činu. Praha: Leges, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7502-339-1.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
CreditCredit85 (85)85
        ZápočetWritten test85 85