CJL 4110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: English Law, White-Collar Crime, Overt Act
6 Dec 2015
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Requiring a specific intent or purpose to commit the crime cause or cause a harm. Requiring some action to carry out the purpose. Punishing inchoate crimes less severely than completed crimes. Intent or purpose to commit a specific crim and. And act, or acts, to carry out the intent: two attempt statutes. A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crim, if with the intent to commit a specific offense, he. Henry law all attempts to commit crime are misdemeanors: rationales for punishing people who haven"t hurt anyone. Dangerous acts, actus reus developed their criminal purpose. Measures dangerousness according to actions aims at preventing harm from dangerous conduct. How close to completion was the crime. Looks at how developed the defendant"s criminal purpose was. Elements of attempt law: two elements does any overt act towards the commission of such offense. In terms of specific crimes, such as attempted murder/robbery in separate statutes.
