Abstract
A poll of the criminal act of murder identifies public opinion and attitude towards the crime, mainly about the particular form of the act of murder, about the way the public perceives court judgements and sentences, and the possibility of rehabilitation of the murder offender, taking into consideration the gender of both the offender and respondent. The methodology of the research is based on survey questionnaire principles where the sample size is 602 persons chosen by quota.
The survey was carried out through moderated personal discussion over a period of 2 months during 2010. It is the first poll of public opinion on criminal acitivity in the Czech Republic considered of such scientific importance and current relevance (the development of reserach mainly in the field of sociology of social deviancy, and the possibility of comparisons with foreign studies) to earn the support of the Grant Agency of Charles University, for research within the framework of a scientific post doctorate study by Jaroslava Hrabetova.