General Catagories of Crime
What crime has a Criminal of fense punushiable by death or by incarceration in a prision facility for at least one year?
What is a Felony
What is a criminal charge and a person could not have commited the offense and was at a wrong place at the wrong time?
What is a Alibi.
This law is also referred as the precedent law.
What is Case Law
what requires that the act and the mental state occur together in order for a crime to have taken?
What is Concurrence
What is an act of violations of laws and a culpable mental state?
What is Concurrence
What is the crime called where a U.S. Citizens attempt to overthrow the U.S. Government?
What is Treason
What is a defendent that admits comitting the act in question but claims that it is neccessary to avoid some greater evil?
What is Justification
This law is usually in a form of property or money.
What is Civil Law
what is a second component of crime is?
What is Mens Rea
What is a legal recognizable cause?
What is Legal Cause
A step toward the intende commission of another offense.
What is Inchoate Offense
What are age,mistake, involuntary intoxication, unconsciousness, provocation, insanity, diminished capcaity, and mental incompetence are examples of?
What is Excuse
This is a body of rules and regulations that define and specify the nature of and punishment.
What is Criminal Law
What is an act that is undertaken to achieve some goal?
What is Intentional
What is acts that are comitted before the laws in question were passed punishable as crimes?
What is Expost Factor
An act in violation of the law. Also, a guilty act. what is this called?
What is Actus Reus
What is discriminated against in the justice process or some important aspect of offical procedures?
What is Procedural Defense
A form of statutory law that describes what cinstitue particular crime and specific the appropriate punishment for the offense. What law is this?
What is Statutory Law
What is a behavior that increases the risk of harm to other people, the person may not have intended to harm?
what is Reckless
What is facts surrounding an event?
What is Attendent Circumstances
"Justice is incidental to law and order." this qoute was made by who?
Who is J. Edgar Hoover
What is evidence and arguments offered by a defendent?
What is Defense
What is Common Law
What is a person reason for committing a crime?
What is Motive
What is specific crime of one of the essential features of that crime, as specified by law or statue?
What is Elements