The application of criminal law in space in comparative criminal law: findings of the law (Part I)

Within this article, the Criminal law provisions of several foreign states were analyzed, being observed and highlighting the differences and similarities in the legislative approach of the concerned institution, in order to identify the common principles of criminal law enforcement in space and to trace the most successful models of legal-penal enforcement of the Criminal law in space. In order to achieve the proposed goal, we concretized the rules for applying the geographical foundations and nationality (citizenship) of both the perpetrator (principle of active personality) and of the victim (principle of passive personality) in different states; we characterized the content and particularities of the principles of the application of the Criminal law in space; we synthesized the successful legislative solutions in the systematization of legal-penal norms in the field of the application of Criminal law in space. The methodology of the research undertaken included the thorough examination of the criminal codes of some states in Europe. Given the magazine’ s editorial policy, the article has been divided into two parts.