At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery.

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  • At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery. However, anyone else directly involved in the commission of the crime, such as the lookout or the getaway car driver, is an accomplice, even though in the absence of an underlying offense keeping a lookout or driving a car would not be an offense. An accomplice differs from an accessory in that an accomplice is present at the actual crime, and could be prosecuted even if the main criminal is not charged or convicted. An accessory is generally not present at the actual crime, and may be subject to lesser penalties than an accomplice or principal. In older sources, an accomplice was often referred to as an abettor. This term is not in active use, having been replaced by accomplice. At law, an accomplice has the same degree of guilt as the person he or she is assisting, is subject to prosecution for the same crime, and faces the same criminal penalties. As such, the three accomplices to the bank robbery above can also be found guilty of armed robbery even though only one stole the money. The fairness of the doctrine that the accomplice is as guilty as the primary offender has been discussed many times, particularly in cases of capital crimes. On several occasions, accomplices have been prosecuted for felony murder even though the actual person who committed the murder died at the crime scene or otherwise did not face capital punishment. One of the most notorious cases of this type was the 1952 case in England involving Derek Bentley, a mentally-challenged man who was in police custody when his sixteen-year-old companion, Christopher Craig, shot and killed a police officer during a botched break-in. Craig was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure, since as a juvenile offender he could not be sentenced to death (he was released after serving ten years), but Bentley was hanged. The incident was dramatized in the film Let Him Have It, which is what Bentley allegedly said to Craig during the incident, it being unclear whether he meant for Craig to shoot the officer, or to surrender the gun. The hanging of Bentley led to public outrage and the eventual abolition of capital punishment in the United Kingdom.
  • Die Teilnahme ist die aktive oder passive Mitwirkung an einem Geschehen (z. B. einer Veranstaltung).
  • Cómplice, en Derecho penal, es una persona que es responsable penal de un delito o falta pero no por haber sido el autor directo del mismo, sino por haber cooperado a la ejecución del hecho con actos anteriores o simultáneos. La figura del cómplice aparece en todos los ordenamientos jurídicos, si bien puede tener un tratamiento diferente y pueden existir matices con respecto a distintas formas de complicidad. En este sentido, en ocasiones se distingue entre: Cooperador necesario: El que cooperan a la ejecución del delito con un acto sin el cual no se habría efectuado. Cómplice propiamente dicho: Aquel que coopera en la ejecución del delito, aunque sin su cooperación el delito podría haberse llevado a cabo en cualquier caso. En ocasiones las penas para cada uno de estos tipos de cómplice son distintas, asimilándose el cooperador necesario a la figura del autor. El cómplice, por su parte, suele tener una pena atenuada.
  • 共犯(きょうはん)とは、正犯に対置される概念であり、複数人が同一の犯罪に関与する形態をいう。
  • 共犯系指加功于正犯之行为及行为人,包括教唆犯与帮助犯两种。 共犯之成立,依作为通说的共犯从属性说,以正犯的成立为前提。共犯独立性说认为正犯不存在时共犯依然得以成立。 在中国大陆刑法学中,共犯常常被作为“共同犯罪”的简称,包括主犯、从犯、胁从犯、教唆犯四类,与上述大陆法系通称含义不同。 共同犯罪的构成要件 1 犯罪主体要件:二人以上 2 犯罪客观条件:共同的犯罪行为(作为或不作为) 3 犯罪主观要件:共同的犯罪故意 主犯 主犯是指在犯罪集团或者聚众犯罪中其组织、策划、指挥作用的或者在共同犯罪中期主要作用的人。 从犯 在共同犯罪中起次要或者辅助作用的,是从犯。 胁从犯 胁从犯是指被胁迫参加犯罪的人。 教唆犯 教唆他人犯罪的是教唆犯。
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  • At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offense. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery.
  • Die Teilnahme ist die aktive oder passive Mitwirkung an einem Geschehen (z. B. einer Veranstaltung).
  • Cómplice, en Derecho penal, es una persona que es responsable penal de un delito o falta pero no por haber sido el autor directo del mismo, sino por haber cooperado a la ejecución del hecho con actos anteriores o simultáneos. La figura del cómplice aparece en todos los ordenamientos jurídicos, si bien puede tener un tratamiento diferente y pueden existir matices con respecto a distintas formas de complicidad.
  • 共犯(きょうはん)とは、正犯に対置される概念であり、複数人が同一の犯罪に関与する形態をいう。
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  • Teilnahme
  • Cómplice
  • 共犯
  • 共犯
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