Criminal Law I
Law tells us there are two types of crimes attending to their responsibility or intent.
Intentional or Unintentional.
What types of crimes fit this definition?
"Those which affect the fundamental values of society, and those which create more danger to humans, possessions or families of the victim"
Grave crimes
_____________ can be defined as the application of scientific methods to the recognition, collection, identification, and comparison of physical evidence generated by the criminal or illegal civil activity.
•Criminalistics
This branch of criminalistics studies the position of remanents of blood or other fluids and tries to determine position, angle, strength and duration of such flow, so it can be useful for a criminal investigation.
Blood and tissue spatter
Premeditation, Malice, and Advantage are considered factors to determine an aggravated crime.
True or false, if false, justify it.
True
This is the definition of what concept?
"The description of a specific conduct with a concurrence of actions or omissions that end up in criminal responsibility"
The criminal Type (typicality)
Crimes, based on their duration, are divided into two types:
Instantaneous and Continued
Criminology studies the human and social conduct, specifically, what three areas or realms?
Causes of Delinquency, Crime prevention, Treatment of a criminal.
This branch of criminalistics studies the scientific aspect of computer science in order to extract information that might be useful for a criminal investigation.
Computer forensics
This is the name we give to the criminal action of helping or encourage someone to take their own life.
Instigation (or aid) to commit suicide
A body of rules and statutes that defines conduct prohibited by the government because it threatens and harms ________ and _______and that establishes punishment to be imposed for the commission of such acts.
public safety and welfare
An attempt of a crime occurs when, thru ideal and effective methods, acts are committed in order to directly and immediately execute a crime, and such intention is stopped by external factors.
True or False, if false, justify.
True
_______________ is the interdisciplinary study of crime as both an individual and social phenomenon, with research on the origins and forms of crime, its causes and consequences, and social and governmental reactions to it.
Criminology
This branch of criminalistics studies the scientific aspect of damage caused by fire, in order to determine if there was criminal intent or not.
Arson
What's the name of this crime?
Taking the life of the spouse, concubine, ascendant or descendant, brother, adopted up to the fourth-degree os separation
Parricide
True or false:
A crime is an action that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.
False, it is an action or omission
We mention three of the five causes of Unimputability we mentioned in class.
1. Not being 18 at the moment of the crime
2.Dementia or other permanent mental disorder
3.Execution during a transitory, grave, accidental and involuntary event
4. Blindness or Deafness when occurred before five years old and no instruction was given.
5. Extreme (grave) fear, when it impairs the subject’s will
Mention three of the five purposes of Criminalistics we mentioned in class:
•Determine the existence of a crime
•Identification of victims
•Determine conducts and tools
•Evidence of the ID the culprit (s)
•Technical proof of crime (evidence)
This man coined the term Criminology in 1885
Rafael Garofalo
This is infanticide:
Killing a baby by his/her mother or father in the first 72 hours of life to guard her honor
True or false, justify if false.
False, only the mother can be accused.
Mention at least four of the six elements that create the Criminal Type (Tipicality).
´Conduct (action or omission)
´Typicity (in a code)
´Anti juridicity (it harms a social value)
´Liability (the actor is capable)
´Culpability (it is proven)
´Punishability (there is a penalty that can be enforced that fits the crime)
Mention three causes of Inculpability.
´When an act was commited in the frame of a responsibility or dutie.
´When the transgression of law was due to a legitimate or unavoidable obstacle.
´When there’s a need to salvage juridical goods from a real, imminent and grave danger, without alternatives.
´Hiding a fugitive or tools used for a crime when there’s no petty gain (fam and friends)
´Self-defense (legitimate defense), in cases where there’s a defense of a
We mentioned Criminology is Interdisciplinary activity. Mention at least three of the four disciplines that were mentioned in class.
•Anthropology
•Psychiatry
•Biology
•Chemistry
This was the name of a 19th Century revolutionary architectural disposition of prisons, which made the inmates feel observed all the time and allowed the guards to reduce their efforts. It was also used in schools and factories.
The Panopticon
He can't be accused, true or false? justify your answer.
False, the crime was committed from the first moment, leaving it behind makes no difference. B-Boy is going to prison.