STUDY UNIT 14 - PARTICIPATION - INTRODUCTION
AND PERPETRATORS - CRW2601 ||QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS!!
CLASSIFICATION OF PERSON INVOLVED IN A CRIME correct answers 1. Participants
a. Perpetrators
b. Accomplices
2. Non-Participants
a. Accessories after the fact.
PARTICIPANT correct answers is anyone who does something, in whatever manner,
whereby she furthers the commission of the crime. On the other hand a person involved who
does not participate is someone who, although she can be described as being involved in the
crime, does not FURTHER the commission of the crime at all.
NON-PARTICIPANT correct answers a person involved who does not participate is
someone who, although she can be described as being involved in the crime, does not
FURTHER the commission of the crime at all. (accessories after the fact).
She is someone who, after the crime has already been completed, learns abt the crime for the
first time and then does something to protect the perpetrators of the crime.
PERPETRATOR (PARTICIPANTS CATEGORY) correct answers A person is a perpetrator
if her conduct, the circumstances in which it take place and the culpability with which it is
carried out are such that she satisfies all the requirements for liability contained in the
definition of the offence.
OR
if, although her own conduct does not comply with that required in the definition of the
crime, she acted together with one or more persons and the conduct required for a conviction
is imputed to her by virtue of the principles relating to the doctrine of common purpose.
IMPORTANT WORDS IN DEFINITION OF PERPETRATOR FOR EXAMINATION
PURPOSES correct answers Conduct
circumstances
culpability
satisfies all requirements in definition
and in part (2)
imputed
doctrine of common purpose
ACCOMPLICE correct answers A person is an accomplice if,
1. although she does not comply with all the requirements for liability set out in the definition
of the crime, and
2. although the conduct required for a conviction is not imputed to her in terms of the
doctrine of common purpose.
She engages in conduct whereby she unlawfully and intentionally FURTHERS the
commission of the crime by somebody else.
AND PERPETRATORS - CRW2601 ||QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS!!
CLASSIFICATION OF PERSON INVOLVED IN A CRIME correct answers 1. Participants
a. Perpetrators
b. Accomplices
2. Non-Participants
a. Accessories after the fact.
PARTICIPANT correct answers is anyone who does something, in whatever manner,
whereby she furthers the commission of the crime. On the other hand a person involved who
does not participate is someone who, although she can be described as being involved in the
crime, does not FURTHER the commission of the crime at all.
NON-PARTICIPANT correct answers a person involved who does not participate is
someone who, although she can be described as being involved in the crime, does not
FURTHER the commission of the crime at all. (accessories after the fact).
She is someone who, after the crime has already been completed, learns abt the crime for the
first time and then does something to protect the perpetrators of the crime.
PERPETRATOR (PARTICIPANTS CATEGORY) correct answers A person is a perpetrator
if her conduct, the circumstances in which it take place and the culpability with which it is
carried out are such that she satisfies all the requirements for liability contained in the
definition of the offence.
OR
if, although her own conduct does not comply with that required in the definition of the
crime, she acted together with one or more persons and the conduct required for a conviction
is imputed to her by virtue of the principles relating to the doctrine of common purpose.
IMPORTANT WORDS IN DEFINITION OF PERPETRATOR FOR EXAMINATION
PURPOSES correct answers Conduct
circumstances
culpability
satisfies all requirements in definition
and in part (2)
imputed
doctrine of common purpose
ACCOMPLICE correct answers A person is an accomplice if,
1. although she does not comply with all the requirements for liability set out in the definition
of the crime, and
2. although the conduct required for a conviction is not imputed to her in terms of the
doctrine of common purpose.
She engages in conduct whereby she unlawfully and intentionally FURTHERS the
commission of the crime by somebody else.
