Trends in crime and organized crime in the Czech Republic

Authors

  • Miroslav Scheinost Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention, Prague, Czech Republic

Keywords:

crime rate; Czech Republic; organized crime; response to organized crime

Abstract

According to the criminal statistics, the crime rate in Czech Republic increased during 1990s. This state was caused by different reasons including the transformation of economic system, low informal social control, new values in the society etc. Among some new forms of crime that emerged after or during transformation organised crime was very remarkable. Even though there were some domestic forms of organized crime, it was developed completely after the changes. Organized crime in the CR is consisted of small rather than huge and numerous organizations. The proportion of foreigners in aggregate organised crime in the CR is approximately one half. Measures against organized crime are mostly consisted of adoptions of necessary provisions in the penal and police law but also some criminological research have been conducted.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Baloun, V., & Scheinost, M. 2002. "Economy and Crime in the Society in Transition – the Czech Republic Case." In: van Duyne, P. C., von Lampe, K., & Passas, N. (Eds.), Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime. Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen.

Cejp, M. et al. 2008. Obrana proti ohrožení společnosti závažnými formami trestné činnosti / Defence against threats to society by the serious crime. ICSP, Prague.

Lubelcová, G. 1998. "Kriminalita v kontexte sociálnej transformácie na Slovensku / Crime in the context of social transformation in Slovakia." In: Radičová, I. (Ed.), Vieme čo odmietame a vieme čo chceme? / Do we know what we depreciate and what we want? SPACE, Bratislava.

Martinková, M. 2007. Zkušenost obyvatel ČR s některými druhy trestných činů / Experience of Czech citizens with some delicts – results of victimological survey. ICSP, Prague.

Rezková, M. 1992. "Možnosti uplatnění schopností před listopadem 1989, dnes a zítra / The opportunity to exert the personal abilities in 1989, today and tomorrow." Sociologické aktuality, no. 9.

Scheinost, M. 2004. "Pojetí organizovaného zločinu a jeho vztah k dalším formám kriminality / Concept of organised crime and its relation to other forms of crime." Kriminalistika, no. 4.

Scheinost, M., & Diblíková, S. 2008. "Criminal conspiracy from the perspective of the Czech Republic – the legal framework, definition, prosecution, offenders." In: van Duyne, P. C., Harvey, J., Maljević, A., von Lampe, K., & Scheinost, M., European Crime Markets at Crossroads. Extended and Extending Criminal Europe. Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen.

van Dijk, J., & Mayhew, P. 1993. Criminal victimisation in the industrialised world.

Vláčil, J. 1992. "Paradoxy české privatizace / Paradoxes of the Czech privatisation." Sociologické aktuality, nos. 8–9.

Downloads

Published

31.12.2010

How to Cite

Scheinost, Miroslav. 2010. “Trends in Crime and Organized Crime in the Czech Republic”. Crimen 1 (2):270-85. https://epub.ius.bg.ac.rs/index.php/crimenjournal/article/view/598.

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Comparative View

License

The authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, allowing others to share the work with proper attribution to the authors and acknowledgment of its original publication in this journal.