The concept and legal consequence of the excessive use of self-defence

In my final dissertation, called "The Notion and Legal Consequences of the Transgression of the Limits of Legitimate Defence and Destitution", I am dealing with the problems of legitimate defence and destitution as circumstances excluding illegality. These institutes justify behaviour, which on the one hand formally indicates a crime, but because by means of them a person averts immediate danger or an attack on the interests protected by the criminal law, it is on the other hand acknowledged as socially beneficial, thus not illegal, socially dangerous and therefore not criminal. Institutes corresponding to legitimate self-defence or destitution have been known ever since and currently one can find the confirmation of them in law orders of practically each country all over the world. Legitimate self-defence and destitution may be considered as the so-called common institutes penetrating all rules of law, besides the criminal law they are to be found in the civil law, administrative law (misdemeanours) or the constitution law. The objective of the work is to give an integrated overview of the problem, of which common public has no good knowledge, although such situation, when it is necessary and useful to defend our or somebody else's interests, may happen to anyone of us. The beginning includes a chapter..