The book is devoted to the General and Special parts of German criminal law. It emphasizes issues relevant to Russian criminal law at the present stage of its development. The book reflects the state of the current criminal legislation, the judicial practice of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and other higher courts, as well as the criminal law doctrine of Germany. It highlighted similar and distinctive features of criminal law institutions and norms of German and Russian legislation, explained the content of the most important criminal law prohibitions, and gave methodological schemes for analyzing corpus delicti. The book was prepared with the support of the Ministry of Justice of Germany.