Trestný čin nebezpečného pronásledování podle § 354 tr. zák.

• Main Author: Píková, Gabriela
• Other Authors: Říha, Jiří
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-323424

The crime of stalking represents a specific form of harassment and violence, known as stalking. Since 1990 antistalking legislation became enacted first in the United States of America and in succesive steps the crime of stalking got into legislation also in the continental European territory. In the Czech Republic the crime of stalking was involved in the new Criminal Code, which became effective 1.1.2010 and is amended under § 354. The aim of this thesis was to introduce the crime of stalking in the most comprehensive way. Above all to define stalking, analyze its possible forms and manners, make an insight of this social problem from the viewpoint of the victim, to specify offendor typologies, take a think of motivation to commit this crime, to mention so-called expartner stalking and celebrity stalking as specific forms of this crime. I specifified the characteristic features and analysed the body of the crime of stalking, examined the characteristics of the objektive element sof the body of this crime, especially the duration of the pursuit, caution of a reasonable concern and the forms of possible unlawful conduct. And in the last charter I focused on the crime of stalking in other states. I chose Virginia in the USA, because the United States are the region where antistalking laws became...