THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF SLOVAKIA

Abstract

The subject of this research is the criminal legislation of the Slovak Republic since the entry of Slovakia into the Austro-Hungarian Empire (XIX century) to the present time. In the article analysis of the extraordinary criminal legislation of the period of World War II, the socialist Criminal codes of the Czechoslovak Republic (1950 and 1961) and the existing Criminal code of the Slovak Republic, adopted in 2005 and entered into force on 1 January 2006.The article also presents the constitutional development of the country under the Constitution of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948, 1960) and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic 1992. The special attention in the article is paid to the integration of Slovakia into the European legal space with its occurrence in 2004 into the structure of the European Union. The article also contains a comparative analysis of the main institutions of the criminal law of Russia and Slovakia.