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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Political Crimes

Bedirhan Erdem, Uğur Orhan

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
August 2021

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Criminal penalties — Regulation of political parties — Political accountability — Democracy

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Political crimes are (i) particular criminal conducts (acts or omissions) which comply with the criminal rules that serve exclusively the protection of the interests of the state; in a strict sense, crimes against the organized structure of the state, or (ii) ordinary criminal conducts, which are committed in order to reach or to prevent certain political objectives. Two main criteria will be better formulated rather than giving a certain and precise definition of the political crime in order to answer what makes a crime ‘political’ (Section D of this article)....
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