THE EXCLUSION OF THE CONCOURSE OF CAUSES IN ITALIAN CRIMINAL LAW.

1. Pre-existing, simultaneous and supervening circumstances as autonomous causal series. The present paper concerns above all the "supervening cause".--2. The general provisions regarding causality in the Italian Penal Code.--3. The supervening cause, specified by It. Penal Code as an exclusive one, is a necessary antecedent, not a mere occasion.--4. The second paragraph of Art. 41 can be rightly explained only by the theory of the "efficient cause".--5. Art. 40 and 41 are related to the objective side of crime.--6. The section deals with pre-existing and simultaneous causes, as alone producing the event.--7. The different theories on causality and the real purpose of the law.--8. Conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]