Ultima Ratio, Is the Principle at Risk?: Editors’ Introduction

<p>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 perpet...

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Main Authors: Heike Jung, Kimmo Nuotio, Joxerramon Bengoetxea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-01-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2213166