This is our second article on the topic of complicity in a crime focusing on the attribution of criminal liability of guilt as an accessory to a crime. To recap, our first article focused on joint criminal enterprise as a form of complicity in a crime. Our next third article focuses on constructive murder in a joint criminal enterprise.
Under the laws of accessorial criminal responsibility of guilt, guilt will be attributed to not just the person who physically commits the crime (referred to as the principal offender), but it also attributes in a derivative way to those who were accessories to that crime. This is one of the main differences to that of joint criminal enterprise.
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