Societas et Iurisprudentia (Dec 2019)
To the Concept of Long-term in the Context of the Criminal Offense of Dangerous Pursuing
Abstract
In the paper, the author deals with the criminal offense of dangerous pursuing in accordance with paragraph 360a of the Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic, which is a part of the Slovak criminal legislation with effect from 1st September 2011. The basic outline of the criminal characterization presented in the paper is supplemented by its main theme which is the interpretation of the term “long-term” by the criminal offense of dangerous pursuing. The presented paper deals with this topic in general, with respect to the opinions of individual authors as well as to the application level. The author uses in particular the starting points of the doctrine and the application practice of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic, while comparing them with respect to the mutual applicability of approaches. A relatively new element is the legal sentence adopted by the Criminal College of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic no. R 41/2019 which represents in the Czech Republic some element of the completion of the formation of settled practice in relation to the interpretation of the term “long-term pursuing”.
