Chapter 9 Key facts checklist

Inchoate offences
  • Inchoate means ‘just begun’ or ‘incomplete’. Inchoate offences are those where the full offence is not completed.
  • The reason that the law fixes liability on defendants who have not fulfilled the full offence is to punish those who are willing to be involved in criminality even where the full offence is not, for one reason or another, completed.
  • The common law offence of incitement was replaced with new offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007.
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