title: [Critical issues in criminal investigations in the ascertainment of causation and liability].
abstract: The critical issues still affecting criminal proceedings concerning occupational diseases are discussed, focusing in particular on the following points: determination of cause-effect relationship, finding of guilt, presence of concauses not related to workplace, ascertainment of individual liability and the role of medical sciences.
authors.affiliation: Procuratore della Repubblica, Alessandria, Italia. michele.dilecce@giustizia.it
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Lecce
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D016365:Liability, Legal; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology