Causality in Crimes against Persons Resulting from AIDS Virus Infection

	Causality in Crimes against Persons Resulting from AIDS Virus Infection
پژوهشنامه حقوق کیفری
Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 1, July 2013, Pages 7-26 PDF (832.21 K)
Authors
Ebrahim Taghizade; Ali Reza Emamdadi^* ; Mohammad Ali Taheri
Abstract
Prevalence of AIDS disease without any treatment for it has turned its inflection into a crime commitment in the recent years. Although there is a long period between a person, s infection & his/her death, we can pursue the act of the person who infects others as a murder. On the other hand with regard to three parts of actus reus against corporal integrity of people, causality between the first and the third parts (i.e criminal consequences and culprit’s behavior) is essential. Therefore, we have to study causality in the actuaries. Existence of causality is the only condition for considering the behavior of AIDS vectors and its resulting consequences as a criminal responsibility. So we try to investigate indispensable rules, especially Islamic criminal law that has approved in offences against persons that proceed from transmission of aids virus as the object of this article after introducing this illness and expressing the importance of causality in criminal law and offences against persons
Keywords
AIDS; Causality; Offences against persons; criminal responsibility; Murder

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