Blackmail in Romanian and Moldovan Criminal Law: Comparative Perspective and Contemporary Challenges
Keywords:
blackmail; art. 207 Criminal Code of the Romania; art. 189 Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova; non-pecuniary benefit; cyber crimeAbstract
The article analyses the crime of blackmail from the perspective of substantive criminal law, through the prism of the regulations in force in Romania (art. 207 Criminal Code) and in the Republic of Moldova (art. 189 Criminal Code). The approach aims to: delimit the constitutive elements; identify convergences and divergences in criminal policy and incrimination techniques; reflect the relevant judicial practices (ÎCCJ/CSJ) and the main doctrinal approaches; proposals for lege ferenda and recommendations for unitary judicial application, including in the context of new forms of blackmail (cyber blackmail, sextortion). The methodology combines normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal analysis with a comparative approach.
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