Complicit Act
A Complicit Act is a Crime that ...
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complicity Retrieved:2016-6-6.
- An individual is complicit in a crime if he is aware of its occurrence and has the ability to stop or report the crime, but fails to do so. As such, the individual effectively allows criminals to carry out a crime despite potentially being able to stop it from happening, either directly or by contacting the authorities. The offender is a de facto accessory to the crime, rather than an innocent bystander.
Law relating to complicity varies. Usually complicity is not a crime although this sometimes conflicts with popular perception. At a certain point a person that is complicit in a crime may become a conspirator depending on the degree of involvement by the individual and whether a crime was completed or not.
Complicity is a doctrine that operates to hold persons criminally responsible for the acts of others. Complicity encompasses accessorial and conspiratorial liability. Accessorial liability is frequently referred to as accomplice liability.
An accomplice is a person who helps another person commit a crime, Accomplice liability involves primary actors who actually participate in the commission of the crime and secondary actors who aid and encourage the primary actors. The aid can be either physical or psychological. The secondary actors are called accomplices.
- An individual is complicit in a crime if he is aware of its occurrence and has the ability to stop or report the crime, but fails to do so. As such, the individual effectively allows criminals to carry out a crime despite potentially being able to stop it from happening, either directly or by contacting the authorities. The offender is a de facto accessory to the crime, rather than an innocent bystander.
- Justin Rowlatt. (2016). “The Opium Farmers with the Police on Their Side.” In: BBC News
- QUOTE: He saw me taste the drug. “Don't do that. That stuff is very bad for you," he says. “Haven't you ever been tempted to try it?" I want to know. “I know that if I start using it, I'll get addicted and my future will be destroyed. The people who use it - I've seen them in the cities lying down, their family life is destroyed, their children don't go to school," he tells me. “But you're helping produce the stuff. Don't you feel guilty?" I ask. I'm not surprised by his answer. “I've got no choice," he says. “I've got no job and you get good money with the opium."