Criminal Law and Criminal Policy - Penal Law Criminal Policy: Links and Introduction To Both Sciences

Abstract

The different criminal schools considered Criminal Dogmatics as the hard core of Criminal Sciences and the other disciplines mentioned here, as “auxiliaries” to Criminal Law. In truth it should be so, because they are “different sciences or disciplines in their nature and methodology to address criminal studies or knowledge and therefore autonomous. But in what is called the “Encyclopedia of Criminal Sciences”, they can never be independent, nor do they have a character that is not effectively complementary. Time and new horizons of study, such as emerging specializations, were inevitably interrelating or intertwining concepts and terminology of all of them, to the point that in some issues this link cannot be dispensed with to interpret the Penal Law, the Penal Systems and its application.