Punishment
Almost all criminal convictions in the United States occur this way, instead of through trial.
What is plea bargaining?
This person assisted the offender before or during a crime and generally faces the same criminal consequences.
What is an accomplice?
An otherwise criminal action believed to be necessary to prevent a harm, where the harm prevented is worse than the legal alternative.
What is the defense of necessity?
This crime was traditionally defined as killing with malice aforethought.
What is common law murder?
Draco committed this crime when he pushed Potter down the stairs.
What is battery?
This traditional purpose of punishment emphasizes that people will be discouraged from committing crimes if they fear punishment.
What is deterrence?
This term refers to a person who assists a perpetrator to avoid being caught AFTER the crime has been committed.
What is an accessory?
When at the time of an act a person did not know the quality and nature of the act or did not know that the act was wrong.
What is the M'naghten test for the insanity defense?
This crime was traditionally defined as forceable carnal knowledge of a woman against her will.
What is common law rape?
Draco committed this crime when he and a partner robbed Gringott's bank and his partner zapped a teller with a destruction spell (that killed the teller)
What is felony murder?
This traditional purpose of punishment involves removing an offender from society or preventing the opportunity for future offense.
What is incapacitation?
This offense occurs when a person fails to complete the crime.
What is attempt?
Under this doctrine, a person has a right to be secure in their home and may defend it with force against a threat of a felony.
What is the Castle Doctrine?
This crime was originally defined as the forceable abduction of a person from his or her own country and sending him or her to another country.
What is common law kidnapping?
Draco committed this crime when he took a swing at Potter and missed.
What is assault?
The 8th Amendment prohibits this type of punishment.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
This crime consists of commanding, hiring or encouraging another person to commit an offense.
What is solicitation?
the English case of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens established that the following crime is never justified under a necessity defense.
rules such as the corroboration rule the requirement of immediate complaint made it extremely hard for victim's of this crime to prove their cases.
What is rape?
Draco committed this crime when he refused to let Potter leave the classroom.
What is false imprisonment?
This traditional purpose of punishment is based on just deserts or "an eye for an eye"
What is retribution?
This crime is actually an agreement to commit a crime.
What is a conspiracy?
Action taken based on reasonable belief in the immediate necessity to employ proportional force to protect against unlawful force.
What is self defense?
This common law doctrine placed a woman's legal rights under the authority of a male such as her father or husband.
What is coverture?
Draco committed this crime when he tried to kill potter but did not succeed.
What is attempted murder?