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DEU-1998-L-51220
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Title_of_text
Penal Code (StGB).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Germany
Subjects (Classification)
Criminal and penal law
Adopted on (Date of text)
1998-11-13
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Original title
Strafgesetzbuch (StGB)
Abstract/Citation
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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Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2011-06-23 (DEU-2011-L-89671)
Act to combat forced marriages and to better protect victims of forced marriage, and to amend some Acts on residence and asylum.
Amending text(s)
2011-03-16 (DEU-2011-L-89677)
Act on the Implementation of the Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA of 28 November 2008 on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia and to implement the Additional Protocol of 28 January 2003 on the Council of Europe Convention of 23 November 2001 on Cybercrime concerning the criminal acts committed through computer networks.
Amending text(s)
2013-06-26 (DEU-2013-L-95784)
Act to strengthen the rights of victims of sexual abuse (StORMG).
Amending text(s)
2015-01-21 (DEU-2015-L-101564)
9th Act to amend the Penal Code: guidance for sex offenses punishment.
Amending text(s)
2016-05-30 (DEU-2016-L-103995)
Act to combat the corruption in healthcare.
Amending text(s)
2016-10-11 (DEU-2016-L-104013)
Act to improve the fight against Human Trafficking and to amend the Federal Central Register Law as well as the Eighth Book of the Social Code.
Amending text(s)
2016-11-04 (DEU-2016-L-104015)
Fiftieth law to amend the Penal Code - Improving the protection of sexual self-determination.
Repealed Text region
Repealed text(s)
1974-03-02 (DEU-1974-L-15030)
An Act to introduce the Penal Code.
Repealed text(s)
1974-03-02 (DEU-1974-L-15030)
An Act to introduce the Penal Code.
Related Text region
Related text(s)
1987-04-17 (DEU-1987-L-82015)
Code of Criminal Procedure.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Official English Translation
Author
Bundesministerium der Justiz
Country
Germany
URL
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/german_criminal_code.pdf
File
DEU51220 English.pdf (PDF)
Electronic source title
Act on-line in German
Author
Gesetze im Internet
Publisher
Ministry of Justice - Bundesministerium der Justiz
Country
Germany
URL
http://bundesrecht.juris.de/stgb/
File
StGB.pdf (PDF)
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