Definitions of Crime
Definitions
Measurement of Crime
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Misc
100
crime statistics are accurate T/F
false
100
A Latin term for a guilty state of mind or criminal intent.
What is Mens Rea
100
The failure to enforce the criminal law is?
What is non enforcement.
100
This is the criminal act itself, an intentional or negligent action (or inaction) that causes harm.
What is Actus reus
100
Under what age are you considered not liable for criminal behavior?
What is age 7
200
A crime that is considered wrong in itself is?
What is Mala in se.
200
A legal (not medical) term that refers to a mental or psychological impairment. This is one of the defenses used to be acquitted of committing a crime.
What is insanity.
200
Threatening to strike an individual without actually striking them is actually a crime? T/F
What is true
200
A law that either declares an act illegal which was not illegal at the time it was committed or it increases the punishment of a crime after it was committed or it alters the rules of evidence in a particular case after the crime was committed.
What is ex post facto law.
200
The best estimate of crimes committed is
What is the offenses known to the police
300
A crime that is prohibited by a statue or ordinance but is not "wrong in itself" is called?
What is Mala prohibita
300
If the suspect lacks the capacity to form this they cant be held liable for their criminal conduct.
What is Mens rea.
300
what is the primary objective of criminal justice in the US?
what is to prevent and control crime
300
The failure to take reasonable precautions to prevent a harm.
What is negligence
300
A program under the FBI that voluntarily gathers crime statistics
What is uniform crime report
400
The crime of murder would be an example of?
What is mala in se.
400
an act committed by a juvenile that is a crime for a juvenile but not for an adult.
What is status offense.
400
This (blank) is a form of reporting crime used by the FBI that complies statists of crimes.
What is the Uniform Crime Report
400
Inducing a person, who would not have been predisposed to the crime, into committing a crime. This is done by a law enfc. officer or their agent.
What is entrapment
400
On the show, "Bait car", which of the legal defenses could be made by the defendant who was put into a situation by a law enforcement officer and then "forced" to commit a crime?
What is entrapment
500
T/F in the necessity defense the burden of proof is on the....?
What is the defendant
500
Being forced to commit a crime against ones will is?
What is duress.
500
what humans should do or think under given circumstances, how a person should react
What is an norms
500
In Michigan a person between which ages is considered a juvenile?
What is 7 and 16
500
Failure to prohibit a crime a behavior that should be prohibited.
What is under criminalization
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