NORMATIVIZACIóN DEL ENGA？O Y NIVEL DE PROTECCIóN DE LA VíCTIMA EN LA ESTAFA: LO QUE DICE Y NO DICE LA DOGMATICA

the paper critically focuses on an implicit assumption made by hispano-american criminal law doctrine concerning the current general tendency to construct in a normative way (“normativization”) the fraud offence. according to this assumption, the tendency to normative constructions in criminal law theory necessarily confirms the so far widely accepted restrictive interpretation of the deception element in the offence of fraud. through an analysis of the premises for such a restrictive interpretation, the author aims to prove that nor the tendency to normative constructions, in general, neither the specific development of that tendency in the field of the fraud offence, in particular, support that conclusion; on the contrary, from these tendencies emerge important counterarguments against it.