What is the purpose of a law?
What is to establish rules/regulations in a society
What is one of the top organizations that communities create to keep themselves safe?
What is a neighborhood watch
What is the person who helps commit the crime called?
What is the accomplice
What is it called when someone has planned/thought out the murder before committing it?
What is a premeditative manslaughter
What is the term for setting any property a flame?
What is arson
What is the famous code of Hammurabi inscribed in?
What is a black stone pillar
What is Alaska
What are the two classes of crimes?
What is felony and misdemeanor
What is the Coroner
What is the most common type of crime in the United States?
What is property crimes
What are laws made to protect?
How many estimated gangs are there currently running in the United States?
What is about 20,000
What one thing is always part of a crime no matter what?
What is a motive
What is the crime that originally only referred to children but now it consists of any age?
What is kidnapping
What amount of money must a person steal for it to be considered petty theft?
What is anything less than 100
What is no
What is the most controversial American law at this moment?
What is abortion
What is the first thing that police officers do when they arrive at a crime scene?
What is they secure it and any evidence
---- is the attempt to hard someone, while ----- is the actual physical harm to a person.
What is assault and battery
What is it called when someone changes a document or falsely uses someone else's name?
What is forgery
What are the types of laws?
How many days does a governor have to pass or veto a law, not counting Sundays?
What is 10 days
What is a criminal conspiracy?
What is a group of people who plan the crime
Is a police officer killing a criminal who poses a real and serious threat considered murder?
What is no, it is a non-criminal homicide
Can you get in trouble for buying something that you know was stolen?
What is yes