Substantive provisions of German Law criminalizing forms of terrorism in the Global Era

Authors

  • Patrick Pintaske University of Osnabrück

Keywords:

Terrorism, Convention, Germany, German criminal code, Working definition.

Abstract

Terrorism is one of the most difficult and challenging topic in criminal law in the beginning of the 21st century. The countries all over the world are afraid of becoming a place for terrorist activities. The most effective way to deter terrorist attacks is to find a global strategy in different areas of our society. The IFCCLGE wants to work out a new convention. Therefore a new norm can be formulated. But in criminal law the global strategy has to take into consideration the already existing national criminal law rules because new criminal regulations need to be necessary. Therefore all national systems should be analysed by a working definition of terrorism and pointed out which regulations are able to handle the problem of terrorism. The following paper will show which provisions of the German criminal code (StGB) come into consideration to fight terrorism.

Author Biography

Patrick Pintaske, University of Osnabrück

The author is Lecturer and Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) under Professor Dr. Arndt Sinn, German, European, and International Criminal Law and Comparative Criminal Law at the University of Osnabrück, Germany

Published

2012-07-25

Issue

Section

Dossier Terrorism