A criminal law analysis of collusion as a single continuous infringement. Conspiracy, continouous offense, or unity of action?

Abstract

This article seeks to find within criminal law doctrine a figure that accomplishes the same objectives that the figure of a single continuous agreement accomplishes in administrative law. In this line, the article analyses which figures are able to unify for sanctioning purposes different actions realized in the execution of one collusive scheme. To do this the article analyzes the figures of illicit association, continuous commission of a felony, and the identification of a homogenous crime unit. Having discarded the first two options, the article details how the identification of a homogenous crime unit would proceed in cases of collusion.