OFFENSE AND CONTRAVENTION – CORRELATIVE APPROACHES

Practical activity of justice administering in the field of criminal law often faces the problem of delimiting the offenses from contraventions, especially in cases, depending on the degree of danger it entails, one and the same act is sanctioned both as a contravention and as an offense. The authors, in this study, based on a critical examination of the literature, draw the criteria that would underline the delimitation of these two categories of illegal acts.