Some Common Issues and the Application of more Favorable Criminal Law for Crimes against the Person according to the New Criminal Code

• Main Author: Ion Rusu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2015-12-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Danubius: Juridica
• Subjects: objective side; the subjective side; criminal ways; sanctions
• Online Access: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/juridica/article/view/3116/2949

The paper examines the main common issues of crimes against the person, and some other situations of more favorable criminal law enforcement. The innovations consist in the conducted examination and the views expressed on some situations in which the more favorable criminal law should be applied. The main change with a strong preventive feature is to introduce the two institutions, namely, the renunciation of applying the punishment and postponing the punishment, which generally is given a favoring regime to physical or legal entities being at their first conflict with the law or in the case of committing crimes whose seriousness is reduced. The paper continues other papers published in the field, and it can be useful both to academics and practitioners in the domain of preventing and combating crime of this kind.