Rapporto di causalità, rapporti di causalità : riflessioni frammentarie tra diritto penale moderno e giurisprudenza romana

The ‘monolithic’ principle of criminal causality, accepted in the Italian penal code of 1930, is opposed, in Roman sources, by a multiplicity of causal relationships, taken as model on the concreteness of the cases analyzed by the jurists. The phenomenon, however, does not turn into an arbitrary selection of the elements necessary to establish a strict juridical link between event and conduct, but rather, in the evaluation of those, inside the framework of the specific characteristics of the action, within which they find themselves operate