Publication at Faculty of Law |
2009
Abstract
After the "Velvet revolution" in November 1989, an extraordinary increase of criminality occurred in the then - Czechoslovakia. For this reason, the Czechoslovak Helsinki Commitee adopted a document based on expertises of a group of criminologists at the time, entitled "The Right of Citizens to Security in a Legally Consistent State", which contained the basis criminal policy and penal policy recommendations for the new social situation.
The article informs about the crime prevention programmes and also points out some weak-points of this programmmes