The concept that concerns us has two widespread uses in our language, one of them with a positive connotation, which we could call innocent complicity, and the other negative one that is appreciated in the context of the right at the request of the commission of a crime.
Behavior that demonstrates intimate acquaintance and camaraderie between two or more people
The complicity it is that attitude with which it is shown that there is a fluid and intimate knowledge between two or more people or of something that is secret or hidden from others.
That is, complicity is the quality of accomplice, meanwhile, by accomplice we call that individual who demonstrates solidarity or camaraderie regarding an issue. Juan and his brother show an incredible complicity when it comes to humor, whenever one tells a funny situation, the other is in charge of finishing it off with the same sense of humor.
The complicity achieved with my partner is the most successful part of the relationship.
Family, friendship or couple relationships are usually characterized by the presence of alliances, protections that precisely consist of complicity and that only strengthen the ties between the intervening persons. In this case, having a good complicity with mom, with the spouse, or with a brother, will be a highly positive event for the people in question, who in this way tend to feel more content in every way.
Many times, the effect of complicity is such that the people involved can understand each other with just a glance, a gesture, a word, without the need to speak almost, that is, there is a great harmony that favorably influences the relationship.
Of course, this can be modified if there is an act of betrayal that causes one of the people to lose confidence in the other or others.
Obviously this would be the positive sense of the concept.
Law: collaboration or participation of a person in a crime
On the other hand, at the request of Right, complicity will be the cooperation or participation of a person in the commission of a crime.
The accomplice, as the individual who cooperates in the crime in question is also called, it is never the direct author of it, the brain as popularly said, that is, it participates in it for which it will be punished, but it does not have a primary effect. Generally, the accomplice collaborates or cooperates in the execution of a crime by carrying out previous, subsequent, or simultaneous acts.
But of course that non-responsibility in the idea and practice does not exonerate him from guilt and the corresponding punishment.
The figure of the accomplice is present in almost all legal systems, although, also, according to the type of legal system, it is possible that it presents different nuances and treatments.
Complicity classes
There are two traditional forms of complicity ... that of the cooperator necessary, who will be that accomplice that performs an essential act for the execution of a crimeIn other words, without the presence of the accomplice, in no way could the crime in question have been carried out. For example, in an assault on a house, in order to distract the occupants' attention and enter to steal it, it will be necessary for someone to distract the owner (s), therefore, the accomplice, will pose as a network operator phone and tell you that it is necessary to check the control panel that is in front of the house, the owner will access and the rest of the gang can enter the home to steal. Then, without his action, the owner would not have left and the crime could not have been carried out.
And on his side, the accomplice proper will be the one who cooperates in a robbery but in the modus operandi it is not necessary to carry out the crime. In a street assault, whoever accompanies the actions of the criminal who threatens with a pistol grip and forces someone to hand over his wallet will be considered an accomplice, even if, in any case, without his presence or participation, the crime would have been carried out.
It is also an accomplice that person who helps to cover up a crime even if he has not committed it. For example, it concealed the culprit from the police authorities, helped the latter to get rid of the corpus delicti or some evidence, among other alternatives.
Of course, in any case, the accomplice will receive a penalty or judicial punishment, which will be determined by the court in question and according to the degree of complicity and also the magnitude of the crime committed, it is not the same to be an accessory to a scam than of a triple murder.
