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response to this discussion prompt by March 08, 2024 at 11:59 pm. You might consider the following suggestions to help you get started with typing in the reply box:

• Know the different parties to crime and appreciate the difference between complicity and vicarious liability.
• Appreciate that participants before and during the commission of a crime (accomplices) are guilty of the crime itself.
• Know that mere presence or inaction isn't enough to establish accomplice actus reus; the defendant had to take some positive act to aid the commission of the offense.
• Appreciate that courts are divided over whether knowledge is sufficient to prove accomplice mens rea.
• Understand that participants after the commission of crimes (accessories) are guilty of a separate, less serious offense.
• Understand that vicarious liability transfers the actus reus and mens rea from one person to another because of their relationship.
• Understand that vicarious liability can apply either to enterprises (mostly businesses) or to individuals.

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response to this discussion prompt by arch 15, 2024 at 11:59 pm. You might consider the following suggestions to help you get started with typing in the reply box:

• Understand that inchoate offenses punish people for taking some steps towards a criminal purpose, but not enough steps to complete the intended crime.
• Appreciate the long history of attempt law and to understand that criminal attempt liability is based on two rationales: preventing dangerous conduct and neutralizing dangerous people.
• Know the mens rea of criminal attempt is always the purpose or specific intent to commit a specific crime.
• Understand that the actus reus of attempt is an act that goes beyond mere preparation but not enough to complete the crime.
• Understand the difference between legal and factual impossibility and to know that legal impossibility is a defense to criminal liability but factual possibility is not.
• Know that voluntary and abandonment of an attempt in progress is a defense to criminal liability in about half the states.
• Understand that punishing conspiracy is based on preventing crimes by recognizing the special danger of group criminality.
• Understand that conspiracy actus reus consists of two parts: an agreement to commit a crime and an overt act in furtherance of the agreement.
• Understand the relationship between the parties to conspiracy and to know that large- scale conspiracies fall into two major categories: wheel conspiracies and chain conspiracies.
• Understand the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and how it works against organized crime.
• Understand that punishing solicitation, or trying to get someone else to commit a crime, is based on the same idea as punishing conspiracy: to prevent crimes before they start by anticipating the dangers of group criminality.

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