%0 Journal Article
%T Ultima Ratio, Is the Principle at Risk?: Editors＊ Introduction
%A Joxerramon Bengoetxea
%A Heike Jung
%A Kimmo Nuotio
%J Oˋati Socio-Legal Series
%D 2013
%I 
%X Ultima ratio as a normative principle, or a constellation of principles, would be a hermeneutic pre-understanding or pre-interpretative concept to the effect that the definition of a certain socially relevant conduct as a crime and the consequent infliction of a penal sanction on the perpetrator of such conduct is a serious matter to be handled with caution and not to be abused. Similarly, the emergence of new definitions of "European" crimes is a matter of concern. The risk referred to in the rhetoric question of the Workshop ※Is the ultima ratio principle at risk?§ lies in the non-observance of the principle of minimal intervention, the tendency to criminalise and to bring all or any socially 每 even politically 每 undesirable actions under the criminal law, and to use the criminal definition and sanction for purposes and situations other than the strictly necessary 每 principle of necessity 每 and universally shared 每 principle of deep social consensus. Ultima ratio como un principio normativo, o una constelaci車n de principios, ser赤a un concepto heur赤stico, una comprensi車n o pre-interpretaci車n hermen谷utica, a fin de que la definici車n como ※delito§ de determinada conducta socialmente relevante, y la consecuente imposici車n de una sanci車n penal al causante de dicha conducta es un asunto serio que debe tratarse con cautela, y del que no se debiera abusar. El ※riesgo§ mencionado en la pregunta ret車rica del seminario ※ Est芍 el principio de ultima ratio en riesgo?§ se encuentra en la falta de observaci車n del principio de intervenci車n m赤nima del derecho penal, en la tendencia a criminalizar y a reconducir las acciones socialmente, incluso pol赤ticamente, indeseables bajo el derecho penal, y a abusar de la definici車n penal o tipificaci車n y de la sanci車n penal cubriendo finalidades y situaciones diferentes de las estrictamente necesarias, principio de necesidad, y de las universalmente compartidas, principio de consenso social profundo. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2213166
%K Ultima Ratio
%K European Criminal Law
%K minimal intervention
%K decriminalisation
%K criminalisation
%K criminal sanctions
%K proportionality of criminal sanctions
%K abuse of punishment
%K Ultima ratio
%K derecho penal europeo
%K intervenci車n m赤mica
%K despenalizaci車n
%U http://ssrn.com/abstract=2213166