Civil crimes are all those illegal acts carried out by man, involving his civil responsibility, the civil crime and the criminal crime are contrasted. In a strict sense, the fact that derives from a premeditated action and that implies your civil responsibility, for an impediment to a wrongful act or wrongful act, that derives from an unintentional fault. Civil crimes are protected by the Civil Code, which regulates relations between individuals, that is, it commands private matters, and is predestined to financially compensate the damage caused to the victim.
It is a kind of tort done, so in this sense differ civil offenses, which are made with fraud or intentionally, the torts committed with guilt. In the criminal condition, both the illicit acts that are carried out with fraud, and those that are carried out with guilt, are crimes, although the latter take a predicted lower penalty.
The facts that are considered as a civil crime and a civil wrongful crime could also be a criminal offense if they are reflected and sanctioned by criminal law. A criminal offense is not, at the same time, a civil offense, if it has not produced harm; nor will it be a civil offense but, at the same time, a criminal offense, if the illicit behavior is not criminally represented.
Criminal offenses provide a part of the criminal act and, likewise, if they caused economic damage, a separate civil action will be sought. But it may also be denounced by compensating the damages caused by fraudulent illicit acts that have violated municipal regulations.
Civil crimes are clearly differentiated from criminal crimes:
- Civil crimes are unjustifiable actions of wanting to commit an offense. That is, the damaging purpose; the criminal offense, on the other hand, becomes a fraudulent or culpable task.
- The civil offense to conform must cause harm to others; in criminal offenses this collection is not necessary.
- The sanctions incurred on one and the other are compensatory for the civil offense, and restrictive for the criminal offense, in accordance with the purpose harassed by each regulation.
