The Criminal Code provides for a penalty or a preventive measure that may only be imposed for an act that falls under an express statutory penalty and was already subject to a penalty at the time it was committed. The Code provides for criminal liability for intentional and negligent actions while excusing emergency are nominated such as mental illness. Section 2 and 3 of the first chapter provides for classification of criminal acts and relevant punishments including imprisonment, fines and confiscation. The Code provides for specific regulations for imprisonment and punishment of persons under the age of 21 years. The Liechtenstein criminal law apply to all offences committed in Liechtenstein while Section 64 nominated the actions that are subject to this Law independent of the place of occurrence such as any actions or attacks against the state, civil servants and officials, corruption and related crimes, violation of a business or trade secret, any violation of Liechtenstein interest and production and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Code further provides for the liability of legal persons that are responsible for offences and crimes that are committed unlawfully and culpably by managers.
The Code identifies criminal offences against life and limb such as murder, killing on request, involvement in suicide, killing a child at birth, homicide, bodily and physical harm and injury, threat of physical safety and abortion. The Code further provides for the criminal offences against freedom including deprivation of liberty, kidnapping, slave trade, human trafficking, forced marriage and coercion. Offences against honour such as defamation and insult are codified in Section 111. Other general offences are criminal offences against third-party property, theft including data theft, embezzlement, unauthorised use of vehicle, fraud, blackmail and insurance abuse.Section 180 provides for the offences that, contrary to a legal provision or an official order, pollutes or otherwise affects a body of water, the soil or the air in such a way that 1. there is a danger to life or serious bodily harm of another or otherwise for the health or physical safety of a larger number of people, 2. a danger to the animal or plant population on a significant scale, 3. a long-lasting deterioration in the condition of a body of water. Negligent damage to the environment, deliberate environmentally hazardous treatment and shipment of waste, intentionally environmentally hazardous operation and carrying on attack with sever damage to the natural environment are penalised.
Section 177 refers to unauthorised handling of nuclear material, radioactive substances or production and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction radiation facilities with the possibility of putting animal or plant population at danger. The Code nominates punishment for any action that kills, owns or destroys the developmental forms of specimens of a protected wild animal species or removes them from the wild, or destroys, possesses or removes specimens of a protected wild flora species from the wild. The Code further penalise actions resulting from non compliance of the regulations for collecting, transporting, recycling, and disposing of waste, monitoring these activities operationally or controlling them in such a way create risk to life or serious bodily injury. The Code consists of 322 Articles divided in two major parts of General Part and Special Part. At the end of the Code reference is made to transitional and effective date provisions.