Law I / Attempt, Desistance and Participation
Practice question · Match the pairs

Match each form of intervention to what defines it.

  • Sole author
  • Co-author
  • Indirect author
  • Inducer
  • Necessary cooperator
  • Accomplice
  • Cooperates by prior or simultaneous acts falling short of the above
  • Carries out the act personally and alone
  • Contributes an act without which the offence would not have been done
  • Carries out the act jointly with others, sharing control of the event
  • Carries out the act through another person used as an instrument
  • Directly moves another to commit the offence, and is considered an author
Hints
  1. Three of the six are authors in the strict sense and two are considered authors.
  2. Only one of the six has their penalty reduced by a degree.
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  • Sole author Carries out the act personally and alone
  • Co-author Carries out the act jointly with others, sharing control of the event
  • Indirect author Carries out the act through another person used as an instrument
  • Inducer Directly moves another to commit the offence, and is considered an author
  • Necessary cooperator Contributes an act without which the offence would not have been done
  • Accomplice Cooperates by prior or simultaneous acts falling short of the above
Why

The last pair is the one that decides real cases. An accomplice and a necessary cooperator both contribute without controlling the event, and the difference, whether the contribution was indispensable, carries a full degree of penalty. Courts approach it by asking whether the contribution was a scarce good the others could not readily have obtained elsewhere.

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