The case of substantive criminal law before the Bars of constitutional law - An overview from the perspective of the German legal order

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-288

  Lagodny, Otto ^a  

^a Department of Law ^*  (Austria)

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EID: 84856417565     PISSN: 09289569     EISSN: 15718174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718179920518862     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. See G. Heine, Die strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit von Unternehmen (Baden-Baden 1995) pp. 27 et seq.
2. See more detailed: O. Lagodny, Strafrecht vor den Schranken der Grundrechte (Tübingen 1996) pp. 77-135;
3. see also G. Staechelin, Strafgesetzgebung im Verfassungsstaat (Berlin 1998) pp. 50, 111 et seq.;
4. I. Appel, Verfassung und Strafe (Berlin 1998) pp. 433 et seq.
5. See in detail: O. Lagodny, op. cit., pp. 94 et seq., 129 et seq. See also BVerfGE 96, 245; W. Schild, 'Strafbegriff und Grundgesetz', in A. Eser/U. Schittenhelm/H. Schumann, eds., Festschrift für Theodor Lenckner zum 70. Geburtstag (Munich 1998) pp. 287
6. also to W. Schild, Der Strafrichter in der Hauptverhandlung (Heidelberg/Hamburg 1983) pp. 96 et seq.
7. R. Alexy, Theorie der Grundrechte (Frankfurt a. M. 1986) pp. 122 et seq., esp. 146 et seq.
8. One of the few consequences which may be drawn at this step is that it is not constitutional to punish behaviour which is justified by objective circumstances which the actor is not aware of, see in detail: O. Lagodny, 'Grundrechtliche Vorgaben für einen Straftatbegriff', in J. Arnold/B. Burkhardt/W. Gropp/H.-G. Koch, eds., Grenzüberschreitungen - Beiträge zum 60. Geburtstag von Albin Eser (Freiburg 1995) pp. 27-37.
9. Cf. only T. Lenckner, in A. Schönke/H. Schröder, Strafgesetzbuch, 25th edition (Munich 1997) ann. 8 et seq. before section 13.
10. The discussions about the concept of 'Rechtsgut' remind me of the 'tû-tû'-analogy which Alf Ross (Ross, 'Tû-Tû', 70 Harvard Law Review 812-825 (1956/57)) used to analyse the concept of guilt.
11. See O. Lagodny, op. cit., pp. 145-162, 288-317 and 424-445; and also I. Appel, op. cit., pp. 206-207, 336-390. G. Staechelin, op. cit., pp. 120 and passim, tries to lift the question of 'Rechtsgut' to a higher level from a different constitutional concept (i.e. E. Grabitz, 'Der Grundsatz der Verhältnismäßigkeit in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts', 98 Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts, 568-616 (1977)), which has not been accepted in constitutional doctrine. Therefore, his approach to promulgate a concretisation of the concept of proportionality which is specific for criminal law is not convincing as long as we analyse criminal law on the basis of accepted doctrine in constitutional law.
12. See O. Lagodny, op. cit., pp. 318-321
13. and I. Appel, op. cit., pp. 175 et seq, p. 179.
14. See in detail: O. Lagodny, op. cit., pp. 165-366.
15. U. Weber, 'Die Vorverlegung des Strafrechtsschutzes durch Gefährdungs- und Unternehmensdelikte', in H.-H. Jescheck, ed., Die Vorverlegung des Strafrechtsschutzes durch Gefährdungs- und Unternehmensdelikte, Supplementary to Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft (Berlin u.a. 1987) pp. 1-36, at 31.
16. BVerfGE 28, 175, 188; 51, 60, 74; BVerfGE 30 Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2207 (1977).
17. see R. Alexy, op. cit., pp. 75 et seq.
18. See in detail: Lagodny, op. cit., pp. 519 et seq.
19. G. Jakobs, loc. cit., pp. 719 et seq.
20. As to the ignorance of the present legislator, see the realistic, and through its objectivity, frightening mirror which M. Hettinger, Entwicklungen im Strafrecht und Strafverfahrensrecht der Gegenwart (Heidelberg 1997) illustrates. In addition, actual changes in the criminal law by the '6.
21. Strafrechtsreformgesetz' (6th law of criminal law reform), Federal Law Gazette ['Bundesgesetzblatt'] (1998) Volume I, pp. 164 and subs., have caused a tremendous wave of critique because it was passed almost out of the blue with enormous incoherency due to the lack of sufficient analysis
22. see K. Lackner/K. Kühl, Das Sechste Gesetz zur Reform des Strafrechts - Eine kritische Einführung (Munich 1998) pp. VI-IX for further references.