Criminal Liability of the Physician for Intentional Offences

Abstract

The Algerian legislator has afforded the human person — and the attendant rights to life and health — an exceptionally high degree of legal protection, criminalizing every form of aggression against these rights and making the imposition of criminal sanctions a necessary consequence of any such violation. Accordingly, this study seeks to examine the criminal liability of physicians in cases where they commit intentional offences, through a systematic analysis of those offences, their constitutive elements, and the penalties prescribed to address and curtail them.