Report on the Security Situation in the Czech Republic in 1999
(in comparison with 1998)

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2.8. Crimes against Human Dignity (Moral Crimes)

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

2.1. Crime by Regions. Regional Variations
2.2. Misdemeanours
2.3. Offenders
2.3.1. The Crimes of Repeat Offenders
2.3.2. Crimes Committed by Foreigners
2.3.3. Crimes Committed on Youth and by Youth
2.3.4. Crimes Committed by Members of the Czech police, Czech Army, Employees of the Customs Administration and Members and Civilian Staff of the Czech Prison Service
2.4. Victims of Crimes
2.4.1. Information on Victims of Crimes
2.4.2. Information Gathered from the Research of Security Feeling and Attitude of People to Security Risks
2.5. Crimes against property
2.6. Economic Crime, Corruption
2.7. Crimes of Violence
2.8. Crimes against Human Dignity (Moral Crimes)
2.9. Breach of Public Order and Hooliganism, Street Crime
2.10. Crimes Committed on Railways
2.11. Crimes Having Extremist Nature
2.12. Protection of Official Secrets
2.13. Illegal Migration
2.14. Organised Crime
2.15. Terrorism
2.16. Illegal trade in Arms and Explosives
2.17. People Trafficking
2.18. Forgery
2.19. Drugs
2.20. Road Safety
2.21. Searches for Persons and Articles
2.22. Communist Crime Investigation

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