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... 68 Criminal law, like law in general, actualizes itself through communication 69 and is real in the social sense if it provides social orientation. 70 In this respect, Jakobs' statement that criminal law does not know the category into which free will belongs 71 is true only to the extent that he means the biophysical dimension of free will. Free will is not irrelevant or just a fiction, neither from a perspective of social science nor from a constructivist perspective. ...
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