The history of the German Criminal Code

Authors

  • Vladimir N. Satolin Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Uwe Hellmann University of Potsdam, 89 August-Bebel Street, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Keywords:

moral foundations of German criminal law, Criminal Code, Prussian Criminal Code, Criminal Code of the German Empire, criminal law during National-Socialism, juvenile criminal law

Abstract

This paper depicts the moral foundations of German criminal law, the development of the Criminal Code, embodied in several criminal offences, the wording of which remains almost identical to those in the Prussian Criminal Code from 1851, and the particulars of Juvenile criminal law, set out in the Juvenile Court Act. Finally, this paper offers an overview of the numerous changes made to the Criminal Code since 1949.

Author Biographies

  • Vladimir N. Satolin, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (law), docent; associate professor at the department of theory and history state and law, faculty of law

  • Uwe Hellmann, University of Potsdam, 89 August-Bebel Street, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

    doctor of science (law), full professor; head of the department of criminal law and commercial criminal law, faculty of law

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Published

2019-10-17

Issue

No. 2 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law

Section

Сriminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics

How to Cite

[1]
Satolin, V.N. and Hellmann, U. 2019. The history of the German Criminal Code. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law. 2 (Oct. 2019), 118–124.