Cómplice, en Derecho penal, es una persona que es responsable penal de un delito o falta pero no por haber sido el autor directo del mismo, sino por haber cooperado a la ejecución del hecho con actos anteriores o simultáneos. La figura del cómplice aparece en todos los ordenamientos jurídicos, si bien puede tener un tratamiento diferente y pueden existir matices con respecto a distintas formas de complicidad. En este sentido, en ocasiones se distingue entre: \n* Cooperador necesario: El que cooperan a la ejecución del delito con un acto sin el cual no se habría efectuado. \n* Cómplice propiamente dicho: Aquel que coopera en la ejecución del delito, aunque sin su cooperación el delito podría haberse llevado a cabo en cualquier caso (el complice no domina el hecho). En ocasiones las penas para cada uno de estos tipos de cómplice son distintas, asimilándose el cooperador necesario a la figura del autor. El cómplice, por su parte, suele tener una pena atenuada. Para que haya complicidad debe existir acuerdo de voluntades: \n* antecedente: antes de la conducta \n* concomitente: al momento del hecho o conducta \n* subsiguiente: un acuerdo anterior para que el autor actúe posterior

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Under the English common law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even if they take no part in the actual criminal offense. For example, in a bank robbery, the person who points the gun at the teller and asks for the money is guilty of armed robbery. Anyone else directly involved in the commission of the crime, such as the lookout or the getaway car driver, is an accomplice, even if in the absence of an underlying offense keeping a lookout or driving a car would not be an offense. An accomplice differs from an accessory in that an accomplice is present at the actual crime, and could be prosecuted even if the main criminal (the principal) is not charged or convicted. An accessory is generally not present at the actual crime, and may be subject to lesser penalties than an accomplice or principal. At law, an accomplice has lesser guilt than the person he or she is assisting, is subject to lesser prosecution for the same crime, and faces the smaller criminal penalties. As such, the three accomplices to the bank robbery above can also to a degree be found guilty of armed robbery even if only one stole money. The fairness of the doctrine that the accomplice is still guilty has been subject to much discussion, particularly in cases of capital crimes. Accomplices have been prosecuted for felony murder even if the actual person who committed the murder died at the crime scene or otherwise did not face capital punishment. In jurisdictions based on the common law, the concept of an accomplice has often been heavily modified by statute, or replaced by new concepts entirely.

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