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Tolerable risk in criminal law Abstract This rigorous thesis focuses on an issue of tolerable risk in criminal law. The institute of tolerable risk in criminal is one of the most recent circumstances excluding illegality, which are defined in the Czech Criminal Code. Until its legal definition in the Criminal Code, the tolerable risk was inferred only by legal theory and practice. The tolerable risk is now ambedded in the provisions of Section 31 of the Criminal Code. Tolerable risk is an effective tool for conducting research, for experimenting in science and it can be also applied in medicine, business and sport. It is crucial for the institute of tolerable risk to set boundaries, because an overly liberal approach to defining limits of tolerable risk can lead to a gambling and reckless conduct of individuals. On the other hand, too restrictive definition of tolerable risk limits can restrain the scientific and technological progress and individual creativity in general. This thesis performs an analysis of the institute of tolerable risk in criminal law. Primarily, it deals with the system of circumstances precluding illegality and provides a brief list and description of other circumstances precluding illegality. In the following chapters, it discusses the historical development of acceptable risk in the... |
