Criminal Conspiracy in the Historic Common Law The law of conspiracy is considerably more complex and uncertain than necessary because the statutory reform of the subject is largely contained in Part I of the Criminal Law Act of 1977 was only partial. As a result, there are now two types of conspiracies: the statutory conspiracies governed by the 1977 Act, and an important but limited range of common law conspiracies, which have been expressly retained by the Act, still governed by the old common law rules (Tomlins & King, 1992). The most recent of the conspiracies is the conspiracy to defraud, the conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the conspiracy to outrage public decency; legal conspiracy involves any agreement to commit a crimeAccording to Scheb & Scheb, (2011), the main objective of reforming this system was to temporarily curb the pending revision and reform the law relating to fraud, offensiveness and indecency , as well as how to shape the vision of society as a whole. The law has now been reformed by the Fraud Act 2006 where the Government waits to see how the law works to make relevant changes or abolish common law conspiracy to defraud. The Ministry of Justice in June 2012 published a post-legislative assessment of the 2006 Fraud Act, Cmnd 8372, which supported the idea of ​​maintaining conspiracy to defraud and so it may be a long time before there is any change. Major problems were encountered in In the early years following the Act as to how the conspiracy to defraud preserved in the common law was integrated with the new statutory conspiracy to commit a crime as frequently, an agreement to defraud will necessarily imply an agreement to commit a crime substantial involving dishonesty such as theft or the new crime of fr...... middle of paper ......ssouri or the larger United States. Such crimes are punishable by law and perpetrators have little chance of getting off the hook with minimal sanctions; judges as well as the broader justice system must fairly recall the perpetrators of such acts in the region. Works Cited Dressler, J. (2010). Criminal law. Eagan, MN: Thomson/West.UK. (1987). Criminal law: Association aimed at fraud. London: HMSOHerring, J. (2007). Criminal law. Basingstoke [England: Palgrave Macmillan.Scheb, J.M., & Scheb, J.M. (2011). Criminal law and procedure. Belmont, CA: WadsworthCengage Learning.Tomlins, C. L., & King, A. J. (1992). Labor Law in America: Historical and Critical Essays. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Winfield, P. H. (2001). History of criminal conspiracy and abuse of judicial procedure. Washington, DC: BeardBooks.