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After the adoption of the Model Penal Code in 1962, more than forty states changed their criminal codes.
true
A trial without a jury is called:
bench trial
A friend of yours puts illegal drugs into your backpack without your knowledge. This is known as
mere possession of drugs
Another term for a criminal act is
actus reus
An offense which is punishable by one year or more in a state prison is called a
felony
According to Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which of the following describes the constitutional right to privacy?
a fundamental right
A legal fiction turns what into an act, although it is really a passive state.
possession
Conscious risk creation is called
recklesness
Case citations are summaries of a court’s majority opinion.
false
According to the principle of there must be a specific law defining a crime and setting out the punishment before a person can be punished for that crime?
legality
Criminal conduct that qualifies for criminal punishment is the definition of
criminal liability
Criminal liability without subjective or objective fault is also called
strict liability
City, town, and village governments do not enjoy broad powers to create criminal laws.
false
Equal protection does not require that
everyone or even all criminals be treated exactly alike
Criminal liability is defined as criminal conduct that qualifies for criminal:
punishment
Factual cause is also known as which of the following?
but for cause
Classical deterrence theory states that rational human beings won’t commit crimes if they know that the pain of punishment outweighs the pleasure gained from committing crimes.
true
Ex post facto laws are forbidden by the Constitution.
true
Drivers with dangerously high blood pressure who suffer strokes while they’re driving and kill someone while the stroke has incapacitated them is an example of which of the following?
voluntarily induced involuntary acts
Failure-of-proof defenses are also known as
mistakes