Criminal law between dependence and independence

Abstract

The legal system inside the state provides protection for the vital interests through imposing a group of obligations which individuals and groups must observe.The criminal law represents the active means for achieving this protection. It protect the essential interestOf society.therefor, saying that there is protection in other law is no more than a supposition. In fact, there is no active protection save that contained in criminal legal rule. This protection is one resulting from the existence of a criminal rule whether before applying it.It is found that the criminal law does not enjoy independence of other laws in the legal systemRather it can be said that it enjoys a sort of subjectivity over other laws, which imparts a sort of peculiarityTo it in the roles which it applies for the sake of achieving its end.

Keywords

• theories of the independence or dependence of criminal law