The material element of the offense of injury of the fetus, provided in article 202 of the new Criminal Code

Abstract

Taking into consideration the impending entry into force of the new Criminal Code, we have thought the analysis of the material element of the offense of injury to the fetus to be necessary because the Criminal Code in force does not contain a similar regulation, whose passive subject to be the fetus. Because we do not have rules of the Court in this field yet we have tried to give possible examples in order to explain the theoretical aspects presented in the study.

Keywords

• injury
• fetus
• offense
• material element