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• Opportunities and Boundaries for Criminal Law in a Risk Society : Changes in the regulatory role of criminal law in a postmodern age

  99-112

  Ferenc Irk

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  131

  In the last few decades of the 20th century, the modernization of our world started to accelerate. This tendency means a transition to a second modernization. Risk society has posed new and previously unknown challenges for the decision makers of the world. As a result of it, criminal law, with its traditional instruments, often fails to provide the right response to the new types of criminal acts seriously threatening society. Therefore, there is a need for a change of paradigm. The task to be performed among the prevailing circumstances of risk society is to select those acts the frequency of which can still be effectively influenced by criminal law through the analysis of advantages/disadvantages and cost/benefit. Instruments different to those of criminal law are to be used against serious threats that cannot be influenced by criminal law – threats the seriousness of which are not yet known to a large extent.

• The Relationship between Power and Crime (Criminological approach)

  112-125

  Ferenc Irk

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  142

  During the presentation of the relationship between power and crime the criminologist-author attempts to define power-crime, including crimes committed by the state. Based on international literature, it deals with special features of the power/ state deviances and the characteristics of victims of power crimes.