Besides the general commonality of the causal relationship between behavior and harms in general crime, the causal relationship in dereliction of duty has its own characteristics: the job relevance, accidental causation, indirect causal relationship, diversity and so on.
玩忽职守罪的因果关系除了具有一般犯罪因果关系的共性，还具有职务关联性，偶然因果关系的多发性，间接因果关系的常见性，多样性等自身的特性。
Unlike direct infringement and joint tort, indirect infringement, direct infringement is essentially the different in content, causation, responsibility and legislation applies.
间接侵权不同于直接侵权和共同侵权，在内容、因果关系、责任承担和立法适用上与直接侵权和共同侵权均有本质的差别。
The theories which judging the causation by the empirical rules mainly include indirect disproof theory and general presumption theory. Empirical rules play a very important role in these theories.
而以经验法则判定因果关系的学说在判定因果关系时比较依赖经验法则，十分重视经验法则在因果关系推定中的作用，主要有间接反证说和姑且推定说这两种学说。