LEGAL REGULATION OF FORMS OF COMPLICITY IN THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF SELECTED FOREIGN STATES: A COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS
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complicity in crime, co-perpetration, conspiracy, aiding and abetting, instigation, criminal group, criminal association, criminal liability, comparative criminal law, collective criminal activity.Abstract
The legal regulation of complicity in crime constitutes one of the fundamental issues of contemporary criminal law. Its significance has increased considerably in the context of the growing complexity of collective, transnational and technologically facilitated criminal activity. Different legal systems have developed distinct approaches to co-perpetration, instigation, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, criminal groups and criminal associations, as well as to the liability of persons who establish, direct or participate in such structures.
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