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TERRADILLOS BASOCO, Juan María. Economic criminal law. Criminal policy guidelines. Rev. IUS [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.35, pp.7-36. ISSN 1870-2147.

Criminal policy has been forced by economic globalization to assume new challenges. Specifically, economic criminal law has to redefine in first place its basics objectives: what actions must been punished and banned. Next issue that should be faced is a teleological nature question: rational criminal policy is targeted to prevention, so it has to form part of a social and economic policy context based on the same aim. Criminal law is not the one to be the leader of this process, even though criminal law should refrain from economic criminality: ultima ratio doesn't mean nulla ratio. This criminal law has to be built taking into consideration the economic frame special features -globalization- and the economic agent ones -companies-, but it also has to meet the guarantee principles of the criminal policy from a social State based on the rule of law.

Palabras llave : Criminal and procedural policy; criminal business law; criminalization-decriminalization; democratic principles; economic criminality; economic globalization; social State based on the rule of law; white collar crimes.

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