inchoate crime

Problems in criminal law often start with an inchoate crime - conspiracy, attempt or incitement.

Some academics consider burglary as an inchoate crime.

The court identified these reasons as protecting society from concerted criminal activity and the social threat posed even by an inchoate crime.

An inchoate crime is the crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime.

Inchoate crimes include attempt, solicitation and conspiracy.

According to scholar Frank Schmalleger, burglaries "are actually inchoate crimes in disguise."

Possession of burglar's tools, in jurisdictions that make this an offense, has also been viewed as an inchoate crime:

There is some scholarly treatment of burglaries in American law as inchoate crimes, but this is in dispute.

In the context of reference to liens, rights in equity, and inchoate crimes it has been used as the antonym of inchoate.

Every inchoate crime or offence must have the mens rea of intent or of recklessness, but most typically intent.

Certainly, possession of burglary tools, in those jurisdictions that criminalize that activity, creates an inchoate crime (going equipped in the UK).

For example, for a defendant to be guilty of the inchoate crime of solicitation of murder, he or she must have intended for a person to die.

In some states, the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is also used as a method of proving the intent or mens rea element of the inchoate crime of attempt.