Miscellaneous Criminal Law
Theft of computer parts or materials falls under this offense.
What is larceny?
This is the method agencies use to regulate themselves by collecting and responding to performance data.
What is feedback control?
This mens rea requires a conscious desire to bring about a specific result.
What is intent
When a defendant believes their conduct is illegal, but it actually isn’t, this defense might apply.
what is legal impossibility
Being held criminally responsible for someone else’s actions is known as this.
What is vicarious liability
The time between an event and its report to police is called this.
What is reporting time?
A federal civil lawsuit filed for violations of constitutional rights by police.
What is a §1983 lawsuit?
Acting with awareness that your conduct is practically certain to cause a result describes this level of mens rea.
what is knowledge
When the actor tries to commit a crime but the crime cannot physically occur due to unknown circumstances.
what is factual impossibilty
Liability based on aiding, encouraging, or helping someone commit a crime.
What is complicity
The Brady Rule requires prosecutors to disclose this type of evidence.
What is exculpatory evidence?
Accreditation by CALEA is this, not mandatory.
What is voluntary?
A defendant who disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk is acting with this mental state.
What is recklessness
This test evaluates how close a defendant came to completing a crime.
what is dangerous proximity test
The doctrine that makes employers liable for employees’ actions within the scope of employment.
What is respondeat superior?
All definitions of street gangs share this core element.
What is involvement in criminal or delinquent activity?
Performance appraisals may be used for this legal purpose.
What is protecting against lawsuits?
The lowest level of culpability, involving a failure to be aware of a risk a reasonable person would notice.
what is negligence
This defense fails when the defendant’s plan is criminal even if completion was impossible.
what is factual impossibility
The Court justified expanded vicarious liability using this phrase.
What are “the trends of the times”?
This doctrine requires police to obtain a warrant when searching a place where someone has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
What is the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement?
Charging for traditional police services, such as reports or fingerprinting, is an example of this trend.
What is fee-for-service policing?
The term for the guilty mind required for criminal liability.
what is mens rea
his test looks at whether a reasonable person would believe the defendant had no intent to stop.
what is probable desistance test
Hiring someone unqualified and being sued for the consequences is an example of this type of negligence.
What is negligent hiring?