Structure
The German Penal Code is divided into two main parts:
General Part ("Allgemeiner Teil"): in which general issues are arranged, for example:
- Area of the law's validity
- Law-related definitions
- Capacity to be adjudged guilty
- Perpetration and incitement or accessoryship
- Necessary Defence
- General provisions for punishments (fines and imprisonment)
- Statutes of limitations
- Attempts
Special Part ("Besonderer Teil"): in which the different criminal offences and their definitions and punishments are listed, for example:
- Crimes against the democratic rule of law
- Crimes against public order
- Crimes against the person of a sexual nature
- Crimes against life
- Crimes against another person's wealth (for example robbery and theft)
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