An approach towards the criteria to determine the proportionality between aggression and defense: relationship with the principle in dubio pro reo
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https://doi.org/10.24142/indis.v7n14a6Keywords:
criminal law, unlawfulness, absence of criminal responsibility, legitimate defense, proportionalityAbstract
Self-defense is one of the most traditional legal-criminal institutions of social life. In Criminal Law since the ancient Roman people it has been identified with the Latin aphorism vim vi repellere licet, which means that it is lawful to reject violence with violence. However, legitimate defense, because it is a cause for the absence of criminal responsibility, has a fairly strict structure for its recognition in the Criminal Process, with proportionality being the most important core requirement for its configuration and application. Hence, the requirement of proportionality cannot be understood in terms of equality between the means of aggression and the means of defense, since the victim must be recognized as having the effective possibility of containing the aggression with the means at his disposal when the Aggressor is performing unjust assault.
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