Anti-Terrorist Legislation in Criminal Law in Hungary

2. Concepts of combating modern terrorism

Maybe George P. Fletcher, the internationally well-known and most cited US-American scholar of criminal law and legal philosophy, had it right when he said in 2006: ‘As the concept of terrorism fulfils multiple functions, the better way to think of terrorism is not as a crime but as a different dimension of crime, a higher, more dangerous version of the crime, a kind of super-crime incorporating some of the characteristics of warfare.’ This definition helps understand the phenomenon itself but is less effective to be applied in the adaptation of criminal law to fit the evolving challenges of modern terrorism. Nevertheless, many experts and authors have said something similar in the sense that modern terrorism cannot be tackled with the tools of old criminal law but that our societies must find new ways to prevent and