DIFERENȚA DE TERMINOLOGIE ÎNTRE CAUZA DE IMPUNITATE ȘI CAUZA DE NEPEDEPSIRE

The violation of the rules of criminal law by a natural or legal person produces numerous consequences, both on the environment in which the offender lives and on his personality. Thus,
criminal sanctions are applied to him with the purpose of preventing the commission of other deeds prohibited by the criminal law, but also of his re-education. However, the legislator, for reasons of criminal policy, has decided to regulate some situations that lead to saving the offender from the punishment provided by law. Among these situations are also the causes of impunity. The article aims to analyze the terminology used by the legislator in drafting cases of impunity and the repercussions that a misunderstanding thereof can have on the addressee of the criminal norm. For the elaboration of this article, doctrinal sources were used in which there have been defined causes of impunity and the moment in which they intervene, but also solutions found in the mandatory case law.