Otázka: Crime and punishment
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): Tariel
1. Intro
- crime is an action which is against the law
- punishment serves for restricting crime
- people need to be punished for their crimes so they won’t commit them again and others will be aware of those rules
2. Legal systems of different countries
- executive
- police, federal police (FBI), intelligence (CIA, MI6)
- legislative
- proceeding of the bill:
bill is proposed – goes to Chamber of Deputies – is discussed and voted on – then it is submitted to the Senate – if it passes in Senate it is submitted to the president – president has veto right
- judicial branch
- the highest courts – Supreme or Constitutional
- in ESC – based on Common Law
3. Types of Crime
- minor crimes and serious crimes
Minor offences
- petty theft
- shoplifting
- driving offences
- parking tickets, speeding, accidents, going through a red light
- littering
- piracy
Serious crime = Felony
- blackmailing
- kidnapping
- hijacking – similar to kidnapping, object – plane etc
- arson (ársen) – setting things on fire on purpose
- drug pending / drug dealing / drug possession
- forgery – making fake money
- rape
- mugging – violent attack and robbery
- burglary – stealing from someone’s house
- robbery – taking property from a person using force
- white collar crime
- cheating in tax payments
- computer crime
- whistle blowing, hacking
- political crime – corruption (David Ráth)
- child abuse, child pornography
- manslaughter x murder
- manslaughter is killing without intention
- terrorism (9.11)
- war crime
4. Types of Punishment
- imposing a fine
- community service
- to be imprisoned
- suspended sentence
- corporal punishment
- capital punishment / death penalty
- for – potential murderers would think twice before committing the crime, safer for society, retribution – murderers should get what they deserve, less taxpayers money would be spent
- against – innocent people are sometimes wrongly convinced, state has no right to take anyone’s life, religious reason
5. Steps of investigation
- evidence
- clues, fingerprints, bloodstains, CCTV records, alibi
- interrogation
- professions connected to investigation
- coroner, detective, forensic specialist, secret agent, pathologist
6. Trial
- what does it look like at the court?
- The person who committed a crime is taken to custody by a police officer – at the court he is charged with his crime and a case is presented to a jury – during the trial evidence is explored and witnesses speak – at the end person is convicted – jury makes a decision, suspect can appeal later on.
- defendant (obžalovaný), defence (obhájce), witnesses /( an eye witness), prosecutions, judge, the jury
- proving the defendant is guilty (as charged), to sentence someone (sentence)
7. Known criminal cases
- F. Kennedy Assasination
- political murder
- unsolved
- conspiracy theories
- September 11 attacks
- terrorist attack on The World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York
- Al Qaida terrorist group
- 2001, followed by the War in Iraq
- Corruption of David Ráth
- former minister of health from The Social Democratic Party
- 7 million Czech crowns in a wine box
- Whistleblowing of Julian Assange (wikileaks)
- exposure of secret government information on the non profit website wikileaks
- currently staying in London on an Ecuadorian Embassy, charged with pedofilia in Sweden
- helped Edward Snowden
- International Court for Human Rights found violation of his rights
8. Crime in popular culture
- literature
- Beggar’s Opera – John Gay
- Arthur C. Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
- Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot
- Ian Fleming – James Bond
- Dexter
- TV shows
- CSI Miami, Hawaii 5-0, The Mentalist, Sherlock, Elementary, The Professionals, Law and Order, Dexter, The Good Wife, Bones, Colombo
