Complicity and other Forms of Involvement of Several Persons in the Commission of a Crime

Abstract

The article analyzes the forms of involvement of several persons in the commission of a crime, the core of which is recognized as complicity in a crime. Various names of the generic concept combining these forms are given, as well as specific forms allocated in science are listed, in which several people are united in connection with the commission of a crime. Special attention is paid to the analysis of failed complicity, its differentiation from complicity, unfinished complicity and complicity in an unfinished crime. The 

formulas of qualification of the specified legal phenomena are analyzed in detail. Examples of sentences in which incorrect presentation of qualification formulas entailed a change in court decisions are given. The issue of the existence of unfinished complicity in a completed crime and unfinished complicity in an unfinished crime, is investigated as a debatable one. The conclusion is made about the need for normative fixation of at least some of the most problematic forms of involvement of several persons in the commission of a crime and the regulation of the rules of their criminal legal assessment in the law.