Resumen
Considering some lessons learnt about criminal liability for HIV exposure and transmission, this paper deals with criminal "reckless" harmful/contagious conducts with fatal outcomes. The main imputation problems might arise, also facing the CoViD-19 scenario, about: (1) the evidence for the causal link to determine whether the defendant effectively caused the event; (2) the distinction between "negligence" and "intent", and the limits of criminal "recklessness", according to the Italian Penal Code; (3) the confirmation of the so-called "risk link" between reckless conducts and caused events, concerning the possibly interrupting relevance of victims' conscious/voluntary exposure to the risk of contagion.
Título traducido de la contribución | Criminal liability for contagion. On "reckless" exposure to risk of infection (lessons from the hiv experience for the COVID-19 scenario) |
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Idioma original | Italiano |
Páginas (desde-hasta) | 551-562 |
Número de páginas | 12 |
Publicación | BioLaw Journal |
Volumen | 2020 |
N.º | SpecialIssue1 |
DOI | |
Estado | Publicada - 1 ene. 2020 |
Palabras clave
- Contagion
- CoViD-19
- Criminal liability
- Pandemic emergency
- Reckless exposure
Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus
- Biotecnología
- Medicina (miscelánea)
- Bioquímica, genética y biología molecular (miscelánea)
- Filosofía
- Políticas sanitarias
- Derecho