Crimes arising from ignorance or forgetfulness

Abstract

This article attempts to place crimes based on ignorance or forgetfulness in the structure of a criminal act. It also aims to establish the basis on which criminal liability may be attributed. The author proposes to classify these crimes as voluntary, which is a consequence of some presumptions, like the presumption of general knowledge of the applicable law, and the lack of unambiguous criteria for the distinction between conditional intention (dolus eventualis) and recklessness in practice. This idea enables to see the problem of the intention from a new angle, based not only on intuition, but also on the legal argumentation and interference from the evidence proceeding.