Sustaining and fostering legitimacy of criminal justice institutions in the third decade after the velvet revolution

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sustaining and fostering legitimacy of criminal justice institutions in the third decade after the velvet revolution

Original language description

The article firstly turns to a discussion in the literature of English and American provenience with the aim to analyse the meaning and importance of democratic legitimacy of criminal justice institutions. A special focus is dedicated to the notion of 'procedural justice', i.e. perceived fairness of how these institutions exercise their authority, and supposed limitations of this concept for achieving higher perception of legitimacy and law-abidance among population. Further, some complementing aims, such as endeavours to reach 'materially' just outcomes, or focuses on professionalization and higher efficiency in exercising entrusted powers, are being discussed. The author finally submits that, in order to sustain and foster institutional legitimacy inevolving Czech and Slovak democracies, much more attention has to be paid to ensure that criminal justice institutions, i.e. the police, the public prosecution, the judiciary and the correctional service, exercise their duties in a proce

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AG - Legal sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Lawyer Quarterly: International Journal for Legal Research

ISSN

1805-8396

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

30-43

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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