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
- Three of the six are authors in the strict sense and two are considered authors.
- 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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