ZABLUDA U PRIVREDNIM KRIVIČNIM DELIMA
MISTAKE IN ECONOMIC CRIMINAL OFFENCES

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with mistake of fact and mistake of law with special accent on mistake in economic criminal offences. The author advocates the standpoint that we should differentiate between the effect of mistake of law in the case of acts of commission and acts of omission. The author advocates the standpoint that we should consider about the solution, that mistake of fact can exclude also negligence, at least recklessness. The author finds that on the one hand exists risk for erosion of law because of excessive “subjectivisation” due to admittance of the effect of mistake also for crimes of negligence, but on the other hand denial of this effect opens the door for strict liability. The author calls attention to the particularities of mistake in economic criminal offences and finds, that despite the differences between mistake of fact and mistake of law in the modern criminal law it is more important to differentiate between evitable and/or inexcusable and inevitable and/or excusable mistake than between mistake of fact and mistake of law.

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