Causal relationship and other causal dependences in careless crimes

Introduction: in modern realities, the criminal law concept of the necessary causation ceases to be universal, which causes serious concern for scientists and initiates cognitive processes in this legal space. The raised set of scientific and applied issues, due, among other things, to the rapid development of digitalization and artificial intelligence, the integration of new technologies in all spheres of life, accumulates the most important theoretical and applied problem of cause-and-effect relationship and other causal dependencies between a socially dangerous act and a socially dangerous consequence. This problem, according to the scientific hypothesis, a priori, is most clearly highlighted in the legal field of careless crimes. The purpose of the research is to find arguments for the validity and veracity of the scientific hypothesis put forward, the criterion for the truth of which can be judicial practice, as well as to identify the peculiarities of Causal relationship in careless crimes. Methodology: from the point of view of the methodological basis, the study relies on the universal philosophical method of cognition of criminal law matter, as well as a number of general scientific and private scientific methods, including analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, content analysis, hermeneutic and dogmatic methods, etc. Results of the research and conclusions: first of all, the validity of the scientific hypothesis put forward has been proven. The cause-and-effect relationship between a socially dangerous act and a socially dangerous consequence in careless crimes of the investigated type affiliation (against traffic safety and operation of transport, as well as against life and health of the individual) can be explained taking into account the complex conceptual approach synthesizing rational “grain” of theories of necessary and incoming causality (the latter is a private manifestation of the theory “conditio sine qua non”). The peculiarity of the harm caused in careless crimes of the investigated type is its indirect nature, due to the nuances of an objective situation, the development of phenomena and events of the objective world, physical laws, patient behavior, its physiological state, the action of mechanisms, the “behavior” of artificial intelligence, etc. It is also important to state that in the context of the presented careless crimes, it is more correct to talk not about cause-and-effect relationship, but about other causal dependencies.