RT Article
T1 The Formulation of Voluntary Intoxication in Continental Law
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 13/14
SP 1398
OP 1421
A1 Atalay, Ayşe Özge 1986-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738726193
AB The principle of contemporaneity, which means the actus reus and mens rea must coincide, constitutes the backbone of criminal liability. On the contrary, it is sometimes possible for an offender to commit an offence when she or he does not have the culpability required for the committed offence. The offender can create diminished responsibility through the intake of an intoxicating substance negligently or intentionally, even with the purpose of getting rid of the punishment. To punish such an offender, a legal concept has been developed which is termed as voluntary intoxication in the Anglo-Saxon legal system, while it has been called actiones liberae in causa in the Continental Europe. In this review, actiones liberae in causa, the formulation of voluntary intoxication in the Continental European legal system, will be explained in detail and some suggestions will be made for the application of these two concepts.
K1 Culpability
K1 Criminal liability
K1 Intoxication
K1 Committing offences
K1 Punishment
DO 10.1177/0306624X20909212