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A Level Law (Criminal) Assignment 5 - Inchoate Offences

Task

You will be set one of the following questions:

 

1. "All inchoate offences should be abolished on the theory that society is not harmed until the crime is completed."

Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the above proposition using examples drawn from any of the inchoate offences of incitement, conspiracy and attempt.

(June 2000)

or

2. In order to secure a conviction for an attempted crime it must be proved that the accused has done an act which is 'more than merely preparatory' to the intended offence.

 

How satisfactory has this definition proved to be?

(June 1998)

or

3. Is it either desirable or justifiable to convict a person who attempts to commit a crime which is impossible?

(June 1996)

or

4. Consider whether or not the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 has struck the balance between protecting individual liberties and preventing the commission of crime.

(June 1995)

or

5. (a) In what circumstances may a person be convicted of attempting a crime which it is impossible to commit?

(b) Is criminal liability for attempting the impossible either desirable or justifiable?

(June 1994)

or

6. (a) How far towards the complete offence must a person go before the law will say he has attempted to commit that offence?

(b) Is the present law in this area satisfactory?

(June 1993)

or

7. "The criminal law does not punish people for their guilty thoughts alone but only for overt conduct accompanied by those guilty thoughts."

Assess the validity of this statement with reference to the offence of attempt.

(June 1992)

 

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