Zur Bestimmtheit des Handlungsunwerts von Fahrlässigkeitsdelikten

There is still no actual definition of the concept of negligence in criminal law. Gunnar Duttge gives a precise explanation of the term »punishable negligence«, thus doing away with all those problems which prevail when applying this term in practice. He develops a completely new standard for punishable negligence which fulfils the increasing demands for a decriminalization of moderately severe negligence and which offers valuable help when legal decisions have to be made and the question is where to draw the important line between a mere accident and a punishable offence.