Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each term to what it names.
- Norm of valuation
- Norm of determination
- Security measure
- Delito leve
- A consequence imposed on grounds of dangerousness rather than guilt
- An imperative aimed at motivating an addressee who can be motivated
- The least serious class of offence in the Code's threefold classification
- An expression that a state of affairs is disapproved by the order
Hints
- Two of the four are rival accounts of what a penal norm is.
- One consequence is imposed without any finding of guilt at all.
Show the answer
- Norm of valuation → An expression that a state of affairs is disapproved by the order
- Norm of determination → An imperative aimed at motivating an addressee who can be motivated
- Security measure → A consequence imposed on grounds of dangerousness rather than guilt
- Delito leve → The least serious class of offence in the Code's threefold classification
Why
The first pair looks abstract and is not. If the penal norm is an imperative addressed to someone capable of being motivated, then a person who cannot be motivated does not breach it and their conduct is not unlawful at all; if it is a valuation, their conduct is unlawful and they are merely not to blame. Lesson 10 turns on the answer.
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