Criminal Imputation in Cases or Circumstances of Unconsciousness
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https://doi.org/10.33324/udalawreview.v3i1.405Keywords:
imputation, objective, subjective, unconsciousnessAbstract
The doctrine and its theories, during the construction of Criminal Law, has created different circumstances or legal concepts that remove criminal responsibility. That elimination consists of divesting of criminal relevance to a certain human behavior, suppressing either one or more of the elements or basic categories of the theory of crime. This work will focus on analyzing, in particular, the states of unconsciousness, which are considered usually as causes that conclude in the absence or exclusion of a behavior as criminally relevant. There are, however, many states of unconsciousness, which in the current light of medical science, are really states of alteration of mental health; likewise, situations of unconsciousness that are intentional, foreseeable or avoidable dueto the normative criteria described in the criminal definition. Due to this, what is intended, with this manuscript, is to endow crime with aspects of the theory of normative and general imputation, inorder to consolidate valid and sufficient criteria that help legitimize or not the criminal intervention in certain acts considered prima facie, as criminal or non-criminal, when these, causally, are committed in circumstances of unconsciousness, taking as reference in some cases, the provisions of
the Ecuadorian criminal law.
Keywords: imputation, objective, subjective, unconsciousness.
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