A BRIEF GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE MITIGATING AND AGGRAVATING CAUSES IN ROMANIAN CRIMINAL LAW, IN THE CONTEXT OF SUMMARY COMPARATIVE REGARDS TOWARDS CERTAIN OTHER NATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW SYSTEMS

Abstract

The present article aims to describe a general scheme of the mitigating and aggravating causes in existence in the present Romanian criminal law system. This topic will be placed into the bigger context of some brief comparative regards towards the (general) mitigating and aggravating causes regulated by certain others national criminal law systems, as they emerged from the presentation of the country reports submitted with the occasion of the 2nd Criminal Law Reforms Congress, hosted by the Faculty of Law from Istanbul University (Turkey), between 30th May and 6th June 2015, with the main theme – “Criminal Law Sanctions: The gap between idea and use”, event attended by the author of this article, as (co)representative of Romania.

Keywords

• reasons (causes) for the mitigation of punishment; reasons (causes) for the aggravation of punishment; romanian criminal law; comparative criminal law; 2nd criminal law reforms congress