THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

The international crime is broadly regarded as being represented only by those facts that contradict the international law and they are prohibited and sanctioned by the states, by common agreement. More closely, there are seen as international crimes only the facts that infringe the norms of the international law, that bring serious injuries to the fundamental values for the international society and they enter into the competency area of the international jurisdictions. Making a parallel between the international crimes and the crimes sanctioned nationally, we can observe that they are not different through the constitutive content, but through the presence within the first categories of crimes of an internationality element not met at the secondary ones, at minimum.
The international crimes present a series of proper characteristics and the author's purpose of this study is to make the presentation of the above mentioned characteristics, as well as to underline the fact that for the sanctioning of those that perpetrate them, it is required to create and to turn to an international jurisdiction procedure, fact that is achieved following to the concern of the entire international community to this extent and to the cooperation of national and sovereign states for it.