Zygmunt Bauman and his work Modernity and the Holocaust have argued that sophisticated and intelligent preparation and execution was required for the Holocaust to function. Historical media as well as popular culture have more often than not portrayed the Nazi Germany and Hitlers regime as barbaric and those that followed Adolf Hitler nothing more than beasts. This essay with the support of Modernity and the Holocaust by Bauman argues that it takes more than beasts to perform a genocide on this grand scale.

How ethical is social media today? Do people still abide by social ethical rules in their day to day web activities, whether they are private or professional? For the past two decades social media have developed so fast that they have outran any sort of legislature and ethical rules - the same standards for public behaviour simply do not apply when being active on social media and while legislature has been slowly clawing after social media, one thing in cyberspace has been made abundantly clear - ethics are optional.

The article focuses on the psychological and external factors influencing the expert decisions on usability of latent prints in fingerprint examination. It aims to identify the most common errors in fingerprint examination as a results of both objective, external factors as well as psychological factors in the process of fingerprint identification. The article is aimed at the following questions: the proces of fingerprint identification, usability of latent prints, factors affecting the expert decisions on usability of latent prints.

Folk devils and moral panics by Stanley Cohen states that moral panic is an emotional state that takes root within an individual after being exposed to a negative outcry by mass media and can further be spread by that individuals verbal means. Whether it is originally spread by television, newspapers or the internet, the concept stays the same. The factual (if any) original data gets distorted and warped into something entirely different - because it is the negative preconception that captures the publics eye more often than detailed and accurate information.

Contemporary prisons are more interested in isolating the individual deviant element from the rest of society but not to a point that it will involve a heavy investment. This in turn does not help to rehabilitate offenders, but instead creates some sort of "criminal schools" - a man of questionable decency that has done wrong goes in, but a hardened criminal comes out. As such, contemporary prisons are actually a detriment to public order and make the work of the police harder.

The study compares the competences of individual police-security forces in the Slovak republic and tasks, which are set by law to members of the Police Force, Municipal Police, Military Police, Prison and Court Guard Services and armed members of the Financial Administration. In summary, these police and security forces create a system that performs tasks primarily in matters of internal order and security in all segments of society.

The study compares the powers of the title of special acts to the members of the Police Force, Municipal Police, Military Police, Prison and Court Guard Servise and armed members of the Financial Administration. The scope and content of the authorizations must be related to the scope of the specific police and security unit and should be adjusted in time to the current situation in the field of internal order and security.

Youth crime and delinquent behaviour among teenagers have always been the cornerstone of contemporary civilized countries. Mostly it has been shrugged off as coming of the age. However, an issue arises when these young people get to be a part of a society; voting, driving, working. Is there a reason why violence, substance abuse and antisocial behaviour have been on the rise? Condemnation, higher standard or no-nonsense attitude. These are all factors that focus on the evolution of youth crime."

V tomto clánku nájdete 15 otázok a odpovedí týkajúcich sa toho, aké sú oprávnenia policajtov v case koronavírovej pandémie.

The author of the article pays attention to the individual stages of the overall development of the Department of Object Protection as well as its basic structure and scope of individual tasks. Ensuring safety, trust, life, health and property is one of these main tasks.

The author acquaints the reader with a specific unit providing police aviation in Slovakia, which is the Aviation Unit of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic. One of the objectives of the present paper is to point out the importance of the use aircrafts and helicopters available to this unit, especially in the services of the Police Force and within the Integrated Rescue System in comparison with the Air Service of the Police of the Czech Republic.

Surrogacy is becoming more a common way of procreation not only for women and couples with medical conditions preventing them to conceive or to carry on pregnancy but for any other reasons. Incentives of the surrogate and the intended parents are clear from the beginning of their relationship. However, there is a child in the centre of this relationship, as the most vulnerable subject who is affected by the decisions of the adults without his own say. Irrespective of its attitude towards surrogacy, each country shall secure the rights and interests of the child born or child to-be-born to the surrogate. A general principle of the best interest of the child should be the leading principle in all decisions about the child. The paper focuses on the analysis of the best interest principle in general, in process of surrogacy, as well as on the assessing the principle during the surrogacy process in different countries.

Marriage is a legal institute defining status of its subjects not only in the area of private law, but also in the area of public law. Marriage can be entered into in compliance with the conditions laid down by the law. However, the legal regulation of marriage presumes that there may be a situation where the life of at least one of the fiancés will be endangered, i.e. his state of health will be so serious that if the marriage were to be entered into properly, the fiancé would not live to take all the necessary steps. If this is the case, the Family Act allows for the conclusion of a marriage in a simplified form. The article analyses legal regulation of marriage conclusion in cases of direct threat to the life of at least one of the fiancés (in articulo mortis), meeting the conditions for the validity of such a marriage, as well as deficiencies of the legislation and related issues.

The author analyzes the current legal status of the legal application of the offense “possession of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances” for her own use within the meaning of § 171 para. 1 of the Criminal Code and assesses changes that have occurred in legal practice by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, file no. No .: 2To 53/2016 from 25.04.2017.

In the article, the author presents the possibility of using the findings of criminalistic documentation in proceedings on the administrative expulsion of an alien and the determination of a ban on entry. It is based on the said procedure as an administrative procedure, as well as on its specifics, which distinguish it from other administrative procedures. It describes the application of criminalistic documentation and its principles in practice. It is mainly the documentation of the aliens statement, but the author also deals with other forms of documentation that can be used in the process of administrative expulsion of the alien.

The article focuses on the topic of the historical development of the legislation of circumstances excluding unlawulness of an Act in Slovakia. Thus, specifically what historical development the circumstances excluding unlawulness of an Act went through and also how they were gradually incorporated into the valid Czechoslovak and then also the Slovak legislation. The article walks the reader through the beginnings of the incorporation of these criminal law institutes at the beginning of the 19th century into the Hungarian Criminal Code. Subsequently, it also describes the changes that occurred in the legislation related to the issue after the establishment of Czechoslovakia and also describes the process that led to the current legislation of circumstances excluding unlawulness of an Act in the legislation of the independent Slovak Republic. In the final part of the article, the author also states the valid legislation of the circumstances excluding unlawfulness of an Act.

The article looks at terrorism from the point of view of the protection of the population, based on the method of law analogy, and presents the basic measures of protection of the population and proposes recommendations for civil protection of the population against terrorist attacks, mainly based on the recommendations of Mark Thelen. The article also seeks to outline the position of civil protection of the population and its involvement in protection against terrorism, not only in the performance of scientific, publishing and popularization activities, but directly in the implementation of measures to protect the population.

The concept of restorative justice is conventionally associated with the use of so-called restorative programmes (e.g. mediation, family group conference, sentencing circles). The aim of this article is to bring the reader a holistic view on restorative justice and its potential use when it comes to resolving the disputes arising from criminal law in Slovakia. Based on the analysis, we try to propose appropriate resolutions for the application practice.

The article deals with the topic of the position of prosecutor in court proceedings. Within its scope, the author focuses on the description of the fundamental rights and obligations in this proceeding, as an emphasis on the fact that the burden of proof at this stage of criminal proceedings falls exclusively on the prosecutor. This article also deals with the legislation concerning the so-called conciliation procedure in the context of a guilt and punishment agreement in court proceedings. It describes the course of this procedure, as well as the situations that may arise during this procedure and the subsequent procedural consequences.

In the article we pay attention to the topic: Interrogation of a child in criminal proceedings from the point of view of the legal regulation valid in the Slovak Republic and also from the point of view of criminalistic tactics. In the article, we approach and explain the concept of interrogation in general, both from the point of view of law and from the point of view of criminology. Furthermore, attention is focused specifically on the questioning of the child. The article deals with the stages of the childs interrogation, the documentation of the interrogation and the persons present at the childs interrogation. In the article, we tried to point out how the childs interrogation itself takes place, what conditions are connected with it and what shortcomings our system has in the given area, and to suggest a solution how we can eliminate these shortcomings.

The aim of the article is to analyse the information systems of the Fire and Rescue Service (HaZZ) to support management. This is mainly the characteristics of individual information systems used by HaZZ during and after the intervention and their subsequent analysis in terms of factors affecting their quality and effectiveness. First and foremost was the evaluation of the place and tasks of information systems in the management of HaZZ in terms of legislation in the Slovak Republic. The information system and the management system of the HaZZ in case of intervention were solved - the database of exits and intervention activities of the HaZZ fire brigade units; database structure and their information composition; Dangerous Substances Database Alfadat EP 5.1; Nebis - Alarm 101, as well as information system and management system HaZZ after intervention - STAT ZPP program its origin, concepts, content aimed at obtaining information, selection of information obtained, information retrieval and work with derived information, deficiencies in software operation , elaboration of expert opinion on the cause of fires, increase of comfort and safety, content range of individual code lists. Finally, there is a proposal of measures and recommendations to the security.

Administrative expulsion is a decision that an alien does not have or has lost the right of residence with the possibility of imposing a ban of entry on him. A wide range of legal regulations at the international, European and national levels gives the legal nature of this institute. The aim of the article is to analyze the regulation in question at all the above levels and to conclude on the legal nature of administrative deportation.