New Issues Concerning the Architecture of Romania’s Criminal Law Principles

In the present study, we show that the principles of criminal law constitute a complex, interdependent, mutually conditional whole, each of them characterising the whole of criminal law as a whole about the principles of European Union law. We then point out that, in general, the means of criminal coercion are restricting their scope of application in favour of extending their preventive, educational and social values, through a gradual decompression of criminal law in favour of other forms of legal intervention and coercion (contraventional, administrative, disciplinary, etc.).  We also stress that there are principles enshrined throughout criminal law (1865 - to date), recognised as constants of criminal law; what developments in society have promoted new ideas? Is the range of constants widening or narrowing?