Open AccessCriminal Offences against Public Health under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia
Author(s) -
Vid Jakulin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medicine, law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2630-2535
pISSN - 2463-7955
DOI - 10.18690/mls.13.1.45-66.2020
Subject(s) - criminal code , criminal law , public health , law , criminal procedure , political science , object (grammar) , code (set theory) , the republic , theory of criminal justice , value (mathematics) , criminology , psychology , medicine , criminal justice , computer science , nursing , set (abstract data type) , artificial intelligence , machine learning , programming language , philosophy , theology
The author discusses criminal offences against public health under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia. In this Chapter of the Criminal Code, the object of protection under criminal law is human health, i.e. the health of both individuals and people in general as a common (general) value. Although criminal offences against public health are statistically insignificant in the author’s opinion, they are important for protecting human health as one of the most significant values protected by law. Given the rapid development of medicine, it may be expected that the need will arise in the future for some new incriminations. Modern law places an increasing importance on an injured person’s approval for interference with his or her body, which will lead to a different way of assessing the completeness of the essence of several criminal offences, referred to in this Chapter of the Criminal Code.