Within scientific doctrine, as part of a renewed discussion about the result crime category, the need to bring forward criminal intervention to the phase of endangerment is being accepted in circumstances where collective legal assets, such as the environment, are affected by processes taking a long time and the consequences, although they can be forecast, cannot be evaluated in advance. So “waiting for evidence of damage and trying to have the contours of the damaging result covered by the malice of the subject is tantamount to guaranteeing impunity and a consequent lack of protection of the legal asset. Faced with the inhibition or criminalisation of the damage in terms so vague that they describe nothing, it is preferable to resort to result types of crime”. This has been one of the main reasons explaining the adoption of the result crime structure when the aim is to attempt to protect collective legal assets.
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