The Regulation of Preparation of Crime in Hungary

Abstract

The Criminal Code uses several legal forms to punish preparatory conducts, therefore the legislation is complex. This paper has the aim to present these legal solutions in detail. Because of the overregulation of the preparatory actions, there are more sui generis preparatory criminal offences, which have a collision with other criminal offences (concurrent punishability). Thus, this paper has also the aim to present the phenomenon of 'overregulating’ in the field of preliminary stages of criminal offences.