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Infliction as a Criminal Law Category
- Authors: Yanina I.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University of Justice
- Issue: No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 89-97
- Section: Criminal law studies
- Submitted: 26.01.2026
- Accepted: 26.01.2026
- Published: 17.01.2024
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2072-909X/article/view/375930
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909X.2024.1.89-97
- ID: 375930
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The article is devoted to the issues of infliction as a category of criminal law science. On the basis of the philosophical doctrine of causality, an attempt is made to resolve the problem of criminal law infliction through such concepts as “causal connection” and “causal relationship”. The author comes to the conclusion that infliction is an act which in some cases is criminal, in other cases – non-criminal; causal connection is a feature of the objective side of both criminal and non-criminal infliction, and causal relationship is an optional feature of the objective side of the corpus delicti of an offence with a substantive legislative construction.
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Irina Yu. Yanina
Russian State University of Justice
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Email: yanina_i@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0592-829X
Candidate of Science (Law), Associate Professor of the Department
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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