Prospective implication of crime

The article examines the tendency to establish criminal liability for creating conditions for the commission of crimes by other persons in the absence of classic signs of complicity. The analysis of doctrinal provisions on involvement in a crime and its relationship with complicity, amendments to the criminal law, as well as the emerging judicial practice allow the author to admit the division of involvement into retrospective and prospective ones. If the first one is associated with crimes already committed, the second is addressed to future ones. In the latter case, the subject is involved in encroachments that are not specified in his mind by type and (or) will be committed by an indefinite number of persons. Prospective involvement is formed by calls for criminal activity, its approval and organization, provision of means that facilitate criminal activity and complicate the exposure of the perpetrators.