Inchoate opence (England and Wales)
In the criminal law of England and Wales , an inchoate offense (English 'unfinished offense') refers to offenses that have not been completed. The most important cases are attempt , incitement (~ temptation to act) and conspiracy (~ conspiracy). In the case of an attempt , the perpetrator has already taken steps to commit a complete crime; in the case of incitement , he has induced others to commit a crime; in the case of conspiracy , he has agreed with others to commit a crime. All cases have in common that the perpetrator "not himself performed the actus reus but is sufficiently close to doing so, or persuading others to do so, for the law to find it appropriate to punish him".
literature
- Nicola Padfield: Criminal law . 7th edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-958204-4 , chap. 7: Inchoate opences. .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Herring: Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials . 3. Edition. Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-923432-5 .
