Organizovaný zločin v České republice

Abstract

The first part of this bachelor thesis summarizes the circumstances and conditions that led to the development of organized crime in the Czech Republic before 1989 and especially after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It deals with the concept of organized crime and defines its main characteristics. Subsequently, it describes the best-known domestic cases and points out the danger of organized crime. The next section briefly informs about the origin, history, activity and structure of the most active criminal groups operating in the Czech Republic, countries from the former USSR, Italy, the Balkans and Yugoslavia. Also South America, Asia and Africa are included. The legal means of combating organized crime are given at the end of the thesis, as well as the national institutions and bodies, which in addition to the Czech Police share, clarify and document the crime.