CEVAP:

• Horizontal dimension: captures the phenomenon that in modern society law increasingly spread its reach and it now regulates a wide range of social activities. Law has spread into areas that were formerly considered private and beyond the reach of law. Aspects of domestic and family relations are, for example, now regulated by law.
• Vertical dimension: concerns the expansion of increasingly detailed normative standards.In England have been, for instance, more than 3000 new offences in the last 15 years created.