Abstract

The subject of the present article is the principle of complicity in intentional self-inflicted injury as a negative premise for objective attribution of an effect from the perspective of crimes against life and health in Polish and German criminal law. First, the problem of negative prerequisites for objective attribution of an effect is briefly discussed, which is an extremely interesting issue both from the perspective of dogmatics and the practice of criminal law. Then the article brings closer the criterion of the principle of victim autonomy by means of examples taken from the German doctrine and jurisprudence in the area of crimes against life and health and analyses them from the perspective of the Polish Penal Code. The whole allows to get acquainted with the discussed premise and to understand both its theoretical essence and a somewhat illustrative exemplification

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