Practice question · True or false
A firm resolution to commit an offence, unaccompanied by any external act, is punishable as a preparatory act.
Hints
- Ask what the criminal law can observe.
- Preparatory acts are external acts, and even they are punishable only exceptionally.
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False
Why
False. Deciding to offend is not punishable at all: cogitationis poenam nemo patitur. Even the preparatory acts that are external — conspiracy, proposal, provocation — are punishable only in the cases the law expressly provides, so the criminal law joins the road late and joins it only where the legislator has said so in advance.
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