"Derecho penal de autor"/"derecho penal de acto" are the Spanish renderings of the German expressions "Täterstrafrecht" and "Tatstrafrecht". I am offering the above ("offender-based criminal law") as an option, but I'm also showing below other possibilities found in criminal law articles, essays, etc. on the subject in English:

…the distinction between "penal policies . . . directed at the person of the offender" and those directed "at the offence itself," i.e., the traditional distinction between Täterstrafrecht and Tatstrafrecht that has occupied the minds and pens of generations of German commentators
www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/19.2/br_3.html

However, if the classical school grounded criminal responsibility only in the criminal act (the notion of the so-called criminal law of the deed—Tatstrafrecht), the anthropological school took into account only the personality of the criminal in resolving the question of criminal responsibility (the notion of the so-called criminal law of the actor, that is, the individual committing the crime— Täterstrafrecht).
encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Anthropological+School+of+...

...a shift from a Tatstrafrecht to a Täterstrafrecht, from a criminal law that punished offenses to a criminal law that punished offenders.
rs.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/08/10/0896920510378773.full.pdf

See the distinction between Täterstrafrecht and Tatstrafrecht, or offender criminal law and offense criminal law, in the German literature. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0814719287...

“The German literature has cultivated the point as the distinction between an act-based criminal law (Tatstrafrecht) and an actor-based criminal law (Taterstrafrecht). . . . Liberal regimes stress the limited focus of the criminal sanction; it must be imposed solely for acts, not for the crime of being different.” (quoting George Fletcher)
www.georgemasonlawreview.org/doc/16-3_Oleson.pdf