The modern continental criminal law system is based on the protection of legal goods, with the concept of legal goods also acting as its theoretical basis. Central to it is the distinction between individual and collective legal goods, which, unlike the former, refer to broader, less tangible legal values linked to the community and its functioning as a whole. In this thesis, I consider the phenomenon of collective legal goods from three perspectives. First, I present a discussion concerning the fundamental questions of the typification process: how do we define the notion of collective legal goods in the first place, how do we distinguish between different types of legal goods, and what are the implications of the statutory disposition of a criminal offence and the nomotechnic of mixed legal goods. A consideration of the fundamental doctrinal features follows, which only a proper typological analysis can enable; although the identification of the collectivity of goods is one of the key intersections for deriving practical and theoretical solutions in criminal law, it poses many difficulties. I am mainly concerned with questions regarding the type of impairment of the legal good, causality, the satisfaction of all statutary offence elements and illegality. I pay special attention to cumulative-heterogeneously or conjunctively bound legal goods. Finally, I attempt to concisely address the phenomenon of collective legal goods through its criminopolitical dimension. I first present some possible objections to the excessive proliferation of collective legal goods in specific parts of criminal codes, then I highlight some features of the dialectic of the individual and the collective in criminal law. I translate this into the symbolism of legal goods theory and, finally, carry out a nomotechnical combinatorics regarding the criminal law control of infectious diseases.
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