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Attempted crimes

Where do you draw the line?

Why should the criminal law punish a person who tries, but fails, to commit a crime? Where do you draw the metaphorical ‘line in the sand’ between planning a crime and falling just short of committing a crime? If there is a line to be drawn in the sand, then a jury must decide where that line is drawn

This article is relevant to AQA A-level Paper 1, OCR A-level Component 1, WJEC A-level Units 3 and 4 and Eduqas Components 2 and 3.

An attempted crime comes into play if a person has the intention to commit a crime but is unable to fulfil the actus reus for some reason. It is generally because of the following:

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