Some Theoretical Considerations around the Plurality of Crimes’ Concept

Abstract

The Plurality of Crimes constitutes a complex concept, with a special relevance to the understanding of the Crime’s nature and of its Penalty System. In the Romanian Doctrine, the debates over this subject have started early, at the beginning of the XX-th Century, and are still in play, making of the Plurality of Crimes an open topic. I tried to organize the different points of view expressed in the Doctrine, to figure out the Concept’s Historical Evolution, and to grasp the actual tendencies in the Romanian Legal Literature and Practice, with a particular insight into the influences from other EU Legal Systems. I attempted to draw a conceptual delimitation between the Apparent Plurality and the Real one. The Historical Trend goes towards a broader application for the Plurality of Crimes’ Concept, coupled with solutions of unification in the Penalty System. This Study could be useful in getting penal norms better suited for the present dynamic social life.