The doctrine of attribution is a legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the criminal act.[1]: 347 [2]: 665 Examples include vicarious liability (when acts of another are imputed or "attributed" to a defendant), attempt to commit a crime (even though it was never completed), and conspiracy to commit a crime (when it is not completed or which is committed by another in the conspiracy).[2]: 665
References
- Rethinking Criminal Law, 2000, Oxford University Press, George P.Fletcher, ISBN 0199881308
- Criminal Law – Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1