A comparison between continental european and Anglo-American approaches to overcrimnialization and some remarks on how to deal with it

New Criminal Law Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-138

  Molina, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 79954462531     PISSN: 19334192     EISSN: 19334206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/nclr.2011.14.1.123     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. See, generally, Silva Sánchez, La expansión del Derecho penal: Aspectos de la Política criminal en las sociedades postindustriales (2nd ed. 2006).
2. See, in Anglo America, Douglas Husak, Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law in the Anglo-American theory (2009).
3. Erik Luna, The Overcriminilization Phenomenon, 54 Am. U. L. Rev. 703-46 (2004-5).
4. Other references in Douglas Husak, The Criminal Law as Last Resort, 24(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 208 (2004).
5. Husak, supra note 1.
6. On the Last Resort (ultima ratio) principle, see Husak, supra note 3, at 207-35.
7. Norman Abrams, The New Ancillary Offenses, Criminal Law Forum, 1 (1989).
8. See also Husak, supra note 1, at 40-44.
9. Husak, supra note 1, at 36.
10. In Spanish Penal Code, for example, articles 8 and 73-78.
11. Husak, supra note 1, at 45.
12. A detailed analysis of the causes of overcriminalization can be seen in Sánchez, supra note 1, at 11.
13. Encuesta Nacional de Victimización, 2008. A summary of the survey can be seen in Boletín Criminológico: Instituto andaluz interuniversitario de Criminología, no. 116 (2009).
14. Husak, supra note i, at 209.
15. Compare, for example, the tests that have been proposed to distinguish preparation and execution in both traditions, Anglo-American and continental European, in R.A. Duff, Criminal Attempts 33 (1996);
16. and C. Roxin, Strafrecht Allgemeiner Teil: Band II: Besondere Erscheinungsformen der Straftat, Rn. 99, 360 (2003).
17. About the treatment of situations affected by the sorites paradox in criminal law, see F. Molina Fernandez, La cuadratura del dolo: Problemas irresolubles, sorites y Derecho penal, in Homenaje al Profesor Doctor Gonzalo Rodríguez Mourullo 691 (M. Bajo Fernández et al. eds., 2005).
18. Duff, supra note i3, at 358, 359.
19. Duff, supra note i3, at 49.