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The development in the number of ascertained moral offences committed in the CR from 1993 to 1999 and development changes by years. | |||||||
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
Ascertained moral offences | 2,048 | 2,240 | 2,457 | 2,484 | 2,000 | 2,771 | 2,239 |
Percentage change | 11.12 | 9.38 | 9.69 | 1.10 | -19.48 | 38.55 | -19.20 |
There is a fluctuating trend for the number of moral offences. While they were on the decline in the previous years, in 1998 the number of moral offences ascertained increased. In 1999 a decline was recorded, which means that moral crime display a high degree of latency. The detection rate is constant reaching 91 %. Mainly procurement is very latent where the number of ascertained offences demonstrates the decline by one third (-30 %).
The number of ascertained moral offences in the regions of the Czech Republic in 1999 and development changes by years. | |||||||||
Prague | CBR | SBR | NBR | WBR | EBR | SMR | NMR | CR | |
Ascertained moral offences | 382 | 371 | 169 | 219 | 307 | 202 | 266 | 323 | 2,239 |
Percentage changes in comparison to 1998 | -41.23 | -7.71 | -1.17 | -19.49 | -10.23 | -12.17 | -5.34 | -23.64 | -19.20 |
Prostitution remains a permanent problem that directly relates to the offence of procurement which is very difficult to prove (the majority of prostitutes refuse to testify against procurers or pimps). The situation has not changed very much. This kind of crime also includes elements of organised crime. The number of rapes (634 crimes, -41 crimes) and trade in women (23 crimes, -11 crimes) has decreased. Procurement (soliciting) is usually in a close connection to the trade in women or other offences such as abduction abroad or endangering the morale of juveniles. This kind of crime displays high latency and is not infrequently committed initially with the consent of the women concerned. It displays a high degree of organisation and is international in scope. The crime of sexual abuse is also very latent because, after a significant growth in 1998, the Czech police recorded a decline in sexual abuse (915 crimes, -12 crimes) and in sexual abuse of persons being dependant on a person abusing them (196 crimes, -281 crimes) in the course of the year monitored.
588 (-33) persons were lawfully sentenced for crimes against human dignity (Sec. 241 - 245 of the Criminal Code), of which 410 persons were sentenced for sexual abuse (Sec. 242 of the Criminal Code) and 165 persons for rape (Sec. 241).
2. Crime, Development in Individual Kinds of Crime and Security Risks