De grundläggande rättigheterna och straffrätten

Authors

  • Raimo Lahti

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/ntfk.v85i3/4.137404

Keywords:

Rättigheter, Straffrätten

Abstract

The Constitutional Rights Reform of 1995 in Finland introduced several provisions which are significant for criminal law. The most important of them is the section concerning the legality principle in criminal law. This section is equivalent to the corresponding articles in the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convent on Civil and Political Rights. In certain respects the Finnish provision is intended to be applied more strictly than the corresponding human rights articles. The definition of a crime and the prescription of a penalty must be based on an Act of Parliament. The use of so-called blanket provision techniques must also be reduced and specified.

The increasing emphasis on human and constitutional rights will obviously affect the Finnish criminal law theory and criminal policy. For instance, the moral and political arguments of justice and humanity, which play an important role in criminal law theory, have now a strong institutional support as legal principles, when being firmly attached to human rights and constitutional law.

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Published

1998-11-29

How to Cite

Lahti, R. (1998). De grundläggande rättigheterna och straffrätten. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 85(3/4), 295–307. https://doi.org/10.7146/ntfk.v85i3/4.137404

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