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Economic Criminality

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Course Unit Code119-0347/05
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer 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
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
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.
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.
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CreditCredit85 (85)85
        ZápočetWritten test85 85