Critical aspects towards the legal settlement of the institution of self defense  Cover Image

Aspecte critice privind reglementarea actuala a institutiei legitimei aparari
Critical aspects towards the legal settlement of the institution of self defense

Author(s): Calina Andreea Munteanu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: material attack; direct attack; great danger; new criminal code; special situations towards self defence

Summary/Abstract: Self defense is an area in which is necessary to continue the research, to analyze carefully the solutions of the criminal courts and to find the best solutions de lege ferenda. The characteristics of the attack and defense that the romanian criminal law states are criticized, especially the ones that pretend that the attack must be material, direct, and must put in great danger the values that criminal law protects. We don’t find similar conditions in other european criminal laws, that emphasize the actual and unlawful character of the attack, the necessity and proportionality of the defense with the attack. The solution the new criminal code gives towards self defense is interesting and it may solve the problems the actual legal settlement meets.

  • Issue Year: IV/2009
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 207-214
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian