The concept of guilt: its notion and essence

Abstract

The doctrine of the guilt has occupied a special place in law since ancient times. As the foreign specialty literature as the national literature have developed the issues about its nature, content and forms not only in the general theory of law, but also in the legal branch sciences. It would seem that among the legal scholars once and forever the conception of guilt as an element of the subjective side of the offenses was formed and it became almost chrestomathy. This particular interpretation of the concept of guilt is offered in many modern legal textbooks.