Public health is a prerequisite for the functioning and survival of any human society. Infectious diseases continue to represent a significant public health problem. The subject of this master thesis is the presentation of the criminal law framework in relation to the spread of infectious diseases in Slovenia and some European countries, on the basis of which we can make a comparison with each other and possible proposals for improvement of the existing Slovenian regulation.
Article 177 of the Slovenian Criminal Code (KZ-1) contains the following criminal offence, entitled "Transmission of infectious diseases". Despite its exceptional importance of the legal good protected by this criminalisation, it is surprisingly poorly researched and used in the Slovenian legal theory and jurisprudence. There are several possible reasons that contribute to this. From the absence of very serious epidemics of infectious diseases in this area in the recent years, to the very structure of the criminal offence.
The author presents the relevant legal sources, which constitute the basis for a state action on infectious diseases. The author then reviews and presents the individual criminal offences that can be used in the case of the transmission of an infectious disease. Author's main focuse is on the above-mentioned criminalisation, contained in Article 177. of the KZ-1.
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