Criminal Law General Theory I: Crime Theory

Author: [German] Günter Stratenwerth
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book was originally written by Günter Stratenwerth and published in 1971. Günter Stratenwerth was a student of Hans Welzel, the founder of "Teleological Behaviorism." For many years, Professor Stratenwerth taught criminal law and legal philosophy at the University of Basel in Switzerland while maintaining a close connection with German criminal law, as this textbook demonstrates. After the fourth edition was published in 2000, the continuation of the book's writing was taken over by another author. Lothar Kuhlen completed his habilitation thesis at the University of Frankfurt in 1985 and has been engaged in legal education at the University of Mannheim ever since. The fifth edition translated into Chinese was co-authored by the two authors. This textbook is primarily aimed at students but is also suitable for professional peers. We certainly hope that it can introduce the current rules of criminal law required for national legal examinations to law students. However, our primary goal is to promote an understanding of the fundamental issues of criminal law. Therefore, the focus of our introduction is the doctrinal origins of the various theoretical viewpoints of today, their philosophical backgrounds, and the status of law as a part of social and cultural institutions. However, if we want to meet these requirements as comprehensively as possible, it would result in a textbook with a very broad scope.