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Gibt es den strafrechtlichen Paternalismus? Ein Beitrag zu den Prinzipien der Kriminalisierung

2015

German translation of "ESISTE IL PATERNALISMO PENALE?
 UN CONTRIBUTO AL DIBATTITO SUI PRINCIPI DI CRIMINALIZZAZIONE" (originally published in Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale, 2014, pp. 1209-1248). A discussion on whether the so-called criminal paternalism is compatible with the fundamental assumptions of liberalism has been going on for a long time. The aim of this article is to show that criminal paternalism is actually not an autonomous principle of criminalization. Upon making a distinction between tutelary and despotic paternalism, this paper shows that the former is a manifestation of the principle of harm, while the latter is only apparently opposed to liberalism. Indee…