Zasada winy - uwagi na tle polskiego kodeksu karnego

Guilt, besides punishability and culpability, constitutes an element of the definition of a crime. Scientific literature broadly describes problems pertaining to the essence of guilt and it creates its definitions. However, there is no agreement in this respect and a few more important theories of guilt have been put forward. The 1997 code for the first time introduced the declaration of guilt and the solutions about guilt which principally differ from the previous ones. The Author of the present paper makes an attempt to get a closer look at the problem of guilt, its importance for penal liability as well as trying to point out which solutions concerning the perpetrator’s guilt have been adopted in the present code.