What are inchoate crimes and how do they affect general and/or specific intent?
1. What are inchoate crimes and how do they affect general and/or specific intent? Think about this question and submit an intellectual response.
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1. Inchoate offenses involve these three crimes: Criminal attempts, trying to commit crimes but failing to complete them. Criminal conspiracy, making agreements to commit crimes. Criminal solicitation, trying to get someone else to commit a crime. (Samaha, 2017.) These crimes each have their own specific meaning, but they all involve mens rea and actus rea. These crimes apply to specific intent and the general mental attitude of the individual is also considered as to whether this crime could be fulfilled by the person. To hold an individual accountable for what they might do, the person needs to have a specific intent or purpose to commit the crime and must have acted to attempt to complete the task. We cannot take liberties and freedoms from a citizen for a generally intended inchoate crime. If someone says “I would love to kill someone right now!” we don’t know who that specific person is, and even if this person bought weapons which further affirms the statement, there is no specific intent to kill a specific person.
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