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Penal Code (StGB).

Main Region

First Region

Germany
Criminal and penal law
1998-11-13
National
Law, Act

Second Region

Strafgesetzbuch (StGB)
Issues a new official consolidation of the Penal Code. S. 1 provides that only acts declared illegal before their commission may be punished. Ss. 84-86 prohibit participation in political organizations which are declared illegal by the Constitutional Court or which are against international peace. Part 13 prohibits sexual abuse of children, pimping, and trafficking of humans. The provisions regarding trafficking of humans and sexual misuse of children shall also apply to German perpetrators outside of Germany (ss. 5, 6).

Entry dates region

    Date of entry into force
    1999-01-01
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Repealed Text region

Electronic region

Monograph region

    Monograph title
    English translation of 1975 text in: American Series of Foreign Penal Codes No. 28
    Author
    Joseph Darby, trans.
    Publisher
    Sweet and Maxwell
    Place of publication
    London
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Date
    1987
    Page range
    257 p.

Serial region

    Serial title
    Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I
    Date
    1998-11-19
    Number
    No. 75
    Page range
    pp. 3322-3410