In my master's thesis, I discuss models of sexual assault laws. The essence of the analysis of the models of the sexual assault laws (the core part of sexual criminal law) lies in the understanding of the existing models, the transition between them, comparison, combinations, advantages and disadvantages, all in the context of the adequacy of the models in ensuring an effective criminal substantive law that will provide the appropriate prosecution of some of the most socially sensitive criminal offenses and which will, at the same time, take care of legal security and fundamental legal principles in criminal law. The international and local political climate, which is mostly a reaction to high-profile cases of judicial practice around the world, symptomatically hints at the crisis of the model of coercion, which is allegedly conceptually insufficient for several reasons. The reasons that are in the foreground are mostly special states of the victim such as sleep, the victim's passivity due to overwhelming fear, taking advantage of surprise by the perpetrator and the like – all of this as a surmountable problem for which consent based models offer a solution. Models of sexual assault laws are presented through the prism of criminal law dogmatics, with special emphasis on individual elements such as coercion, consent and other in relation to the catalog of sexual crimes of the special part of KZ-1 and the institutes of the general part of KZ-1.
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