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continuing offence [1 record]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
CONT

Continuing offence ... continuous unlawful act or series of acts set on foot by a single impulse and operated by an unintermittent force, however long a time it may occupy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
OBS

L'infraction continue (que l'on appelle encore infraction successive dans la terminologie judiciaire) consiste dans un état délictueux susceptible de se prolonger plus ou moins longtemps. Ici encore, on trouve non seulement des infractions de commission [...] mais aussi des infractions d'omission [...]. (Pierre Bouzat et Jean Pinatel, Traité de droit pénal et de criminologie, tome I, Paris, Librairie Dalloz, 1963, page 196.)

OBS

Contrairement à la common law, la doctrine française fait la distinction entre les infractions instantanées et continues et les infractions continues et permanentes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Criminología
DEF

[Delito] en el que el culpable consigue un único resultado delictivo realizando no una sino varias acciones que, al violar un único derecho, y aunque cada una de ellas por sí constituyese un delito, son consideradas como la ejecución parcial de un solo delito.

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