By Country
- Australian criminal codes (The states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia do not use codes; the Commonwealth is in transition.)
- Criminal Code of Belarus
- Penal code of Brazil
- British Virgin Islands Criminal Code
- Criminal Code of Canada
- Criminal Code of Chile
- Danish penalty law
- English Criminal Code, a draft has existed since 1989 but, though debated since 1818, has never been enacted.
- Criminal Code of Finland
- French Penal Code
- German Criminal Code
- Hungarian Penal Code in English, status of 18 August 2005 ; Operative Hungarian Penal Code
- Indian Penal Code
- Iranian Criminal Code
- Iraqi Penal Code
- Italian Penal Code
- Criminal Code of Japan
- Criminal Code of Malta, enacted in 1854.
- Mexican Penal Code, enacted on August 14th, 1931.
- Pakistan Penal Code
- Revised Penal Code of the Philippines
- Polish Penal Code
- Criminal Code of Romania
- Criminal Code of Russia
- Penal Code (Singapore)
- Criminal Code of Ukraine
- Title 18 of the United States Code
- Model Penal Code by the American Law Institute
Penal Codes of some member countries of the Organization of American States may be found in the public portion of the OAS website, through links from http://www.oas.org/juridico/MLA/en/index.html. However, the extent to which codes are kept current is unclear, and not all national codes are available. Some countries include special criminal statutes not in their Codes, including statutes on terrorism, drug trafficking and public corruption.
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