The criminal code of each country includes separate provisions on what “forms of complicity in a crime” are. This concept has its own characteristics, types and features. Let's try to figure it out.
Forms of complicity in a crime: concept and signs
So, what is meant by the proposed term? Any joint participation of the intentional nature of two or more persons in the commission of a crime. Naturally, such a factor enhances the danger of the perfect action, therefore, it is an aggravating circumstance. It is also worthwhile to understand that each of the partners makes a completely different contribution to the crime, therefore, each of them receives a completely individual punishment, in accordance with their guilt and role. The main subjective characteristics include the fact that complicity in the commission of a crime is recognized only if there were more than 2 accomplices, and each of them reached a certain age, with the onset of which a person can be sentenced to criminal liability. Do not forget that this form is recognized only in intentional actions. Crimes that are committed through negligence cannot be committed in complicity.
Forms of complicity in a crime: types
The Criminal Code recognizes 4 types of accomplices: organizer, instigator, performer and accomplice. We will analyze each of them separately. The performer is a person who directly commits a crime alone or with other co-executors. There may be several, and the functions and roles of each also differ. An accomplice is a person who “helps” with his advice, directions, and can also promise to hide traces of crimes or murder weapons. It should be understood that the accomplice is a person who helped either before the crime was committed, or at its time, but not after it was completed.
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this person is not directly involved in unlawful acts. Another form is the instigator. This concept refers to the person who prompted the contractor to implement the plan. The instigator as well as the accomplice does not participate directly in any actions, he only directs the executor, being, as it were, the “ideological lever” of his mind. The last view is the organizer. What are the features of this form? Crimes committed in complicity must necessarily have their initiator. He is the organizer: he leads, creates and
organizes groups and communities, thereby involving other people in this. As a rule, this figure is the most dangerous. There is another classification: complicity in the commission of a crime is the organization and execution of a crime with different roles (these roles were presented above) and co-execution when the roles are all equal.
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The Criminal Code of our country has in its structure separate articles on the issues that were outlined above. Forms of complicity in a crime are a kind of borderline of cruelty within the framework of which terrible acts were committed.