From Legal Translation to Legal Globalization: Globalization of Criminal Laws to Counter Global Crimes

Abstract

Abstract-It is the responsibility of national state to enact and implement its national criminal legislations on all types of crimes that occur within its political borders, in accordance with its own social circumstances and economic interests. On the same context, no other state is allowed to interfere with such powers and authorities. As one of the aspects of national sovereignty, the criminal law still based on the doctrine of "territorial basis" that despite saying it has been developed, but not more than crimes. At the age of globalization, national traditional criminal laws suffer from inefficiency in dealing with the new types of crimes, such as financial offences, hi-tech crimes and information systems crimes as well as computer related crimes.The information and communication revaluation, liberation of international trade and removing the political borders of national states all were the result of globalization, which facilitated not only the movement of capitals, ideas, goods, but also destructive materials, such as drugs, atomic weapons, and chemical Products and International adulterated and toxic industrial wastes, by which crimes became global phenomena.

Problems and Strategies in Translating Legal Texts

“…Such difficulties have attracted several scholars to conduct translation studies on law and its related discourse. Challenges or problems in legal texts translation (Camelia, 2014;Karjo, 2015;Kobyakova & Habenko, 2017), models in translating legal texts (Kocbek, 2012), the importance of the legal translation in the globalized world (Hargitt, 2013;Murici, 2016a;Al-Refo & Faqir, 2016), approach in translating legal texts (Stolze, 2013;Stepanova, 2017) are some of the translation studies dealing with a legal text translation.…”

Towards Globalization of Criminal Legislation: French Criminal Legislation as a Model

“…The national state is responsible for the implementation of its national crime legislations on almost all types of crimes, which usually occur within its political borders. [1] With respect to the penal law, it has been proposed by [9] that globalization is not likely to lead towards a global homogenization of penal practices and policies. The penal systems of 12 different countries have been classified on the basis of conservative corporatist, neoliberal, democratic, or oriental corporatist.…”