APPLYING THE EQUIVALENCE THEORY IN CRIMINAL LAW – SOME ISSUES OF INTEREST
APPLYING THE EQUIVALENCE THEORY IN CRIMINAL LAW – SOME ISSUES OF INTEREST

Summary/Abstract: The present article is an elaboration of certain questions of equivalence theory – as the most important theory of causation in contemporary continental criminal law. The starting point of equivalence theory includes the principle according to which all conditions related to a given consequence that may not be rationally excluded, without, if they were, the ensuing consequence being materialized – are equivalent and, consequently, each one of these conditions represents a condition of the relevant consequence (so-called condicio sine qua non). The author considers hypothetical, cumulative and alternative causalities as well as other forms that are instrumental in the implementation of the theory.

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