The stages of the commission of a crime are nothing more than the concrete stages of the implementation of the objective side of a criminal act.
In the Criminal Code of such stages, three are indicated. We are talking about preparing for the crime, attempted murder, as well as the completed crime.
Commission of crime
Immediately it is worth pointing out that the crime may not go through all these stages. The Criminal Code recognizes completed only the act containing absolutely all, without any exception, the main features that the corpus delicti must have. The moment of graduation itself depends only on the specific composition.
Recall that the corpus delicti can be formal or material. In the first case, it is recognized as completed at the very moment when the act created an immediate threat of harm, in the second case, the act will be recognized as completed when the consequences (socially dangerous) occur .
Finding intent is not to be confused with the corpus delicti, since it is not the act itself, but only the desire to commit it.
The stages of the crime are not in vain, because it is they that help to distinguish between acts. It is also worth noting that their degrees of social danger are not the same. No one will argue that an unfinished crime is not the same as a finished crime. The difference between them is really great. Different stages of the crime involve different punishments, the severity of which largely depends on the stage at which the activity of the subject of the crime ceased. Let's consider all in more detail.
Stages of a crime
The very first stage, of course, is the preparation. In this case, we are talking about intentional activity, which is aimed at the manufacture, procurement, or adaptation of tools or any means of committing a crime, the search for accomplices, and so on. We can talk about preparing for a crime only if the crime itself was not committed for circumstances that were not dependent on its subject.
As already mentioned, at this stage, a person is looking for ways to commit a crime, people who could help him, tools for his commission, and so on. An important sign of the objective side in this case is the discontinuity of the action and the failure to carry out what was conceived due to circumstances independent of the will of the subject.
Here, the object of the act in question does not have any effect at all.
Next is the attempted crime. It refers to intentional omissions or actions of a person that are aimed at committing a crime. In this case, the crime should also not be brought to an end due to circumstances that are independent of the subject.
An attempt is an activity that is aimed at committing a crime. In this case, the impact on the object is or is there a real threat of such an impact.
Here, of course, the intent of the subject should not be realized. Direct intent is the most important sign of the subjective side; indirect intent or negligence are not taken into account.
The last stage is a complete crime. Guilty in this very case should be committed all those actions that he intended to perform, but due to some objective circumstances, the criminal result still did not occur. Under the unfinished crime is understood the situation when the subject does not perform all the actions that he considers necessary for the commission of a criminal plan.
An attempt is also distinguished with unsuitable means and an attempt on an object that is unsuitable.