Scurte observaţii asupra relaţiei dintre natura juridică a cauzelor de înlăturare a răspunderii penale şi natura juridică a cauzelor de nepedepsire (de impunitate) în dreptul penal român
Brief remarks on the relationship between the legal nature presented by the cases of removal of criminal liability and the legal nature presented by the cases who preclude punishment (cases of impunity) in Romanian criminal law

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to achieve a general and brief comparative approach towards the legal nature presented by the cases of removal of criminal liability and the cases who preclude punishment (impunity cases), in Romanian criminal law. The author begins from the observation that, although the dominant view in the field of criminal law is that this branch of law is based on three fundamental institutions (namely: the offence, the criminal liability, the criminal sanctions) - each of them having a set of specific extinction causes - the causes who preclude punishment (impunity cases) are not yet recognized, in principle (according to a general theory, marking the doctrine's consensus), as legally autonomous cases (cases who's exclusionary effect is produced directly upon the fundamental institution of criminal sanction). On the contrary, it is considered often that they are a specific (special) form of manifestation of the cases who remove criminal liability. As such, we appreciate that they are wrongly attributed a wider legal nature (with wider effects) than that they actually have / that they should manifest, in a logical and formal structure (hierarchy) of the three fundamental institutions that we indicated before.

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