Vol. 49 No. 2 (2017)
Derecho Penal

Communicability in chilean criminal law from their practical interpretation. Critical view to its formulation as “principle of law”

Alejandro Andrés Leiva López
Universidad del Desarrollo
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Published 2017-12-01

Keywords

  • Communicability,
  • principles,
  • rules,
  • special crimes,
  • perpetrators - participants

How to Cite

Leiva López, A. A. (2017). Communicability in chilean criminal law from their practical interpretation. Critical view to its formulation as “principle of law”. Revista De Derecho - Pontificia Universidad Católica De Valparaíso, 49(2). Retrieved from https://www.rdpucv.cl/index.php/rderecho/article/view/1143

Abstract

The paper analyzes the principle of communicability in Chilean criminal law, especially from a recent conviction verdict of the chilean Supreme Court that erroneously condemns the participants in a “staff member crime” as direct perpetrators. The article criticizes the principle category of communicability and raises hypotheses for its categorization as a rule.