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materially defined crime (состав преступления, объективная сторона которого предполагает помимо действия (бездействия) наступление негативных последствий, напр., убийство; In materially defined crimes, it is not specific conduct which is prohibited, but any conduct which causes a specific condition. Examples of this type of crime are murder, arson. Let us consider the example of murder. Here, the act consists in causing a certain condition, namely the death of another person. In principle it does not matter whether X caused Y's death by stabbing him with a knife, shooting him with a revolver, poisoning him or in the dark showing him a path to a destination which X knows will lead him over a high precipice. The question is simply whether X's conduct caused Y's death, irrespective of what the conduct was. Sometimes formally defined rimes are, for the sake of brevity, dubbed "conduct crimes" and materially defined crimes "result crimes". Alex_Odeychuk) |
