Continuous Crime
Offences in which the execution of the act in the legal definition continues are called continuous offences. In these offences
is a continuing movement. As long as the movement continues, the offence continues to be committed. The offence is only
The fact that it is a crime of action or a crime with an outcome does not change the result. In cases where the legal definition requires an outcome
Since the act continues, logically the result will also continue. However, in the criminal law doctrine
whether it is the act or the result, or both, that continues in uninterrupted offences
There are different determinations. Some authors define an uninterrupted offence as an offence in which the result does not end immediately but continues
offences, some authors consider offences that continue after the realisation and completion of the result.
other authors define uninterrupted offences as offences that are completed with the act and the execution of which continues.
Some authors refer to offences in which the execution of the act continues for a certain period of time, and some authors refer to offences in which the act and its result continue,
Some authors, on the other hand, characterise them as offences in which the unlawful situation continues.
Examples of uninterrupted offences include the offence of deprivation of personal liberty under Article 109 of the TPC,
Offence of establishing an organisation for the purpose of committing a crime under Article 220 of the TCC, the offence of establishing an organisation for the purpose of committing a crime under Article 243 of the TCC
the elective act of continuing to stay there in the offence of hacking into the system, the elective act of continuing to stay there is defined in Article 116 of the TPC.
offence of invasion of the inviolability of the dwelling by leaving the dwelling, the offence of special signs and signs under Article 264 of the TPC
the offence of improper use of clothes may be given. Although the basic form of the offence is not uninterrupted, the qualified form
may be regulated continuously. For example, paragraph 3 of Article 142 of the TPC is of this nature.
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