Chapter 1
Who has the burden of proof regarding criminal conduct?
the prosecution
The principle of there must be a specific law defining a crime and setting out the punishment before a person can be punished for that crime.
Legality
Criminal conduct that qualifies for criminal punishment is the definition of
criminal liability.
The kind of fault requires no purposeful or conscious bad mind in the actor
objective fault
Which of the following is the highest standard of proof known to the law?
beyond a reasonable doubt
The doctrine is concerned with giving individuals fair notice of what is criminal and preventing arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement of laws.
void-for-vagueness
what can rise statutes, contracts, and special relationships.
Legal duties
The conscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks is the definition
recklessness
Where is most criminal law found?
state criminal codes
Eighth Amendment requires that punishments be proportional to the crime.
True
Only voluntary acts qualify as criminal is known as
actus reus
General intent is the intent to
have the mens rea
Criminal law is our society's only form of social control and the only way to hold a person responsible for deviating from social norms.
False
The name of a law that criminalizes an act that was innocent when it was committed.
ex post facto law
The criminal law refers to a failure to act is what
an omission.
objective determination that the defendant’s act triggered a chain of events that ended as the bad result is called the
cause in fact.
Most states have abolished common-law crimes.
True
Which of the following rights is guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment?
the right to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
doctrine imposes a legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers is
Good Samaritan
What is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution
treason