General Part

Section 1: The Criminal Law

Title I: Area of Applicability

§ 1. No punishment without statutory authorization
§ 2. Temporal application
§ 3. Application to conduct within Germany
§ 4. Application to conduct on German ships and aircraft
§ 5. Conduct outside Germany affecting domestic legal interests
§ 6. Conduct outside Germany affecting internationally protected interests
§ 7. Application to other types of conduct
§ 8. Time of conduct
§ 9. Place of conduct
§ 10. Special regulations for juveniles and young adults

§ 11. Expressions pertaining to persons and things
§ 12. Felonies and misdemeanors

Section Two: Criminal Conduct

Title I: Basis for the Imposition of Criminal Punishment

§ 13. Omission as commission
§ 14. Acting for another
§ 15. Intentional and negligent conduct
§ 16. Mistake of fact
§ 17. Mistake of law
§ 18. Increased punishment for special consequences of crime
§ 19. Criminal incapacity of the child
§ 20. Lack of criminal capacity because of mental disorder
§ 21. Diminished capacity

§ 22. Definition
§ 23. Punishment of an attempt
§ 24. Abandonment

§ 25. Principals
§ 26. Instigation
§ 27. Aiding and abeting
§ 28. Special personal characteristics
§ 29. Independent criminal responsibility of parties to crime
§ 30. Attempt to enlist participation in crime
§ 31. Abandonment of the attempt to enlist participation in crime

§ 32. Self defense
§ 33. Exceeding the bounds of self defense
§ 34. Necessity as justification
§ 35. Necessity as excuse

§ 36. Parliamentary statements
§ 37. Parliamentary reports