nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/79edc598dc6b8ab5 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 261104s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/79edc598dc6b8ab5 doi eng 342 23 Irarrázaval Zaldívar, Cristián Author aut What Isn’t Organised Crime? - How a Vague Label Travels the World, and Why Courts Must Read It Narrowly Irarrázaval Zaldívar, Cristián Verfassungsblog 2026-11-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The undeniable danger posed by real criminal organisations justifies offences so elastic that they fit almost any group of people, and whose invocation unlocks consequences bearing no proportion to the conduct. By punishing mere membership, these statutes create what Gerard Lynch called the crime of being a criminal. The vagueness is not a drafting failure. It is by design. A liberal criminal law – understood as one committed to constraining the state’s power to punish – cannot leave that design unanswered. CC BY-SA 4.0 Criminal Law Criminalization International Law organised crime Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/what-isnt-organised-crime/ raw object