Strafgesetzbuch. Leipziger Kommentar
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Edited by:
Gabriele Cirener
Now in its 13th edition, the Leipzig Commentary sets the standard for material criminal law. In 20 volumes, the book’s team of renowned authors examine all facets of the penal code and the international criminal code in their full depth, leaving no question unanswered. Readers seeking comprehensive information and landmark commentary will be amply rewarded.
Now in its 13th edition, the Leipzig Commentary sets the standard for material criminal law. In 19 volumes, the book’s team of renowned authors examines all facets of the penal code in their full depth, leaving no question unanswered. Volume 1 introduces the 13th edition of the reference work on material criminal law with an instructive introduction and commentary on the general provisions §§ 1–18.
Now in its thirteenth edition, the Leipzig Commentary continues to set standards in scholarship on material criminal law. This twenty-volume legal commentary illuminates the penal code in all its facets and in unprecedented depth, leaving no question unanswered. Volume 2 addresses statutes on culpability (§§ 19–21), attempt (§§ 22–24), and perpetration and accessory (§§ 25–31).
Vol. 3 provides a commentary on the provisions of the 4th and 5th titles of the second section of the general part of the Criminal Code (§32–§37 StGB). Title 4 details key justifications and mitigating circumstances, such as self-defense, justified emergencies, and the limits of legitimate self-defense. Title 5 is concerned with the legal indemnity of members of parliament and the freedom from legal liability of truthful parliamentary reporting.
Volume 4 supplies commentary from the general part of the German criminal code on parts 1 to 3 of section 3 (legal consequences of actions). The first part covers punishment: imprisonment, monetary fines, secondary penalties and ancillary matters. The second part discusses punishment calculations, their foundations, victim-offender mediation, extenuating circumstances, etc. The third part examines sentencing for various types of legal violations.
Volume 5 contains commentaries on the rules for suspended sentences, probation (§§ 56–58), warnings with suspended sentences (§§ 59–60), rehabilitation and bail bonds (§§ 60–61), imprisonment (§§ 63–67h), and supervision of conduct (§§ 68–68g).
Volume 6 includes commentary on the provisions of the general portion of the StPO [Code of Criminal Procedure] regarding the legal consequences of the criminal act, including suspension of the driving license, prohibition from professional practice, seizure, and the criminal complaint, along with statutes of limitation (§§ 69–79b).
Volume 7 includes commentary on the special section of the StGB from parts 1 to 6: treasonable disturbance of the peace, high treason, endangering the democratic rule of law, sedition, and endangering external security, crimes against foreign states, against constitutional bodies, and against elections and referenda, against the national defense, and resistance to the authority of the state. Some criminal offenses have been the subject of reform.
Volume 8 covers offences against public order regulated in part seven of the special section of the criminal code.
Volume 9 provides commentary on the regulations pertaining to the counterfeiting of money and official stamps (§§ 146-152b), to false unsworn testimony and perjury (§§ 164-165), and to the offences relating to religion and ideology (§§ 166-168) and those against civil status, marriage and family (§§ 169-173).
Volume 17 comments on the public endangerment offenses regulated under §§ 306–322 of the criminal code, including in particular arson and intervening with road, rail, maritime, or air traffic.
Volume 19 provides commentary on the offences committed in public office regulated in the Special Part of the German Criminal Cord (StGB), including accepting benefits, taking bribes, granting benefits, and giving bribes (§§ 331–335), the judicial perversion of justice (§339), bodily harm in public office (§ 340), making false records in public office (§ 348), and breaching official secrecy (§ 353b).
