Chapter 6
A legal concept, not a medical term!
What is Insanity
2 types of liability for someone else’s criminal acts
What are
1. Complicity --> (establishes when you can be
criminally liable for someone else’s conduct)
2. Vicarious liability --> (establishes which types of
relationships can create criminal liability)
2 types of attempt statutes
What are
1. General attempt statute
2. Specific attempt statute
Killing another human being.
What is Homicide
Psychologists call it “volition,” and most of us call it “willpower”; in the insanity tests it refers to a defendant’s power to control their actions
What is will
4 parties to a crime
What are
1. Principals in the first degree
2. Principals in the second degree
3. Accessories before the fact
4. Accessories after the fact
The defense that what the actor attempted was not a crime
What is Legal impossibility
3 Types of Homicide
what are
1) Justifiable homicide
2. Excusable homicide
3. Criminal homicide
Most courts define it as psychosis, mostly paranoia, and schizophrenia
What is mental disease
Participate before and during the crime
Accomplices
The defense is that some extraneous factor made it impossible to complete a crime
What is Factual impossibility
4 types of murder
What are
1) First-degree murder -->(premeditated killing)
2) Second-degree murder---> (all deaths caused by intentional killings that are not premeditated,
justified, or excused.)
3) Voluntary Manslaughter -->(intentional killings committed in a sudden heat of passion upon adequate provocation)
4) Involuntary manslaughter ---> (Criminal homicides caused either by recklessness or gross criminal negligence)
The excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes they wouldn’t otherwise commit
What is entrapment
Conspirators can be convicted of both conspiracy and
the crime committed
Pinkerton Rule
Agreeing with one or more people to commit a crime
What is Conspiracy
3 kinds of involuntary manslaughter
What are
1. Reckless manslaughter
2. Negligent manslaughter
3. Misdemeanor manslaughter
A group of symptoms or signs typical of a disease, disturbance, or
condition
What is syndrome
Participate after the crime
Accessories
2 types of conspiracies
What are
1. Wheel conspiracy
2. Chain conspiracy
Crime of killing a fetus
Feticide