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Pelser on Inchoate Crimes

By Lawrence Solum

Caroline M. Pelser (University of Utrecht - Faculty of Law) has posted Preparations to Commit a Crime: The Dutch Approach to Inchoate Offences (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 57-80, December 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In combating (organised) crime and terrorism, the emphasis is not placed on responding to committed offences, but on the thwarting thereof. For that reason, criminal law includes inchoate offences, which permit law enforcement intervention before the intended substantive offence is completed. In the last few years, inchoate offences have been expanded in most countries, partly because of national developments, partly in order to comply with agreements made in the EU or UN context. That is also the case for the Netherlands. The aim of this article is to provide a clear picture of the Dutch approach to inchoate crime and the Dutch way of dealing with the current tendencies to approximate substantive criminal law.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).