Rules and regulations made and enforced by government.
What is law?
100
Something one does or fails to do that is in violation of a law.
What is crime?
100
Any crime for which the potential penalty is imprisonment for more than one year.
What is a felony?
100
This is the killing of one human being by another.
What is homicide?
100
This is evidence that the defendant was somewhere else at eh time the crime was committed.
What is an alibi?
200
The rights all people have simply because they are human beings.
What are human rights?
200
People who form groups that are closed to the general public for certain common purposes that may or may not include violent criminal activity.
What are gangs?
200
Any crime for which the potential penalty is imprisonment for one year or less.
What is a misdemeanor?
200
This means having the intent to kill or seriously harm another person or acting in an extremely reckless manner that shows a lack of regard for human life.
What is malice?
200
This states that people who have a mental disease or disorder should not be convicted if they do not know what they are doing or if they do not know the difference between right and wrong.
What is the insanity defense?
300
Regulate public conduct and set out duties owed to society.
What are criminal laws?
300
This word is used to describe all the different kinds of chemicals that people abuse, including alcohol and drugs.
What is substance?
300
This is the main person that commits the crime.
What is the principal?
300
This is the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another person against his or her will with intent to permanently deprive the owner of it.
What is larceny?
300
This states that the defendant admits to committing a crime but that he or she was induced or persuaded by a law enforcement officer to commit the crime.
What is entrapment?
400
Regulate relations between individuals or groups of individuals.
What are civil laws?
400
This type of person is referred to as a repeating offender.
What is a recidivist?
400
This person helps the principal commit a crime.
What is the accomplice.
400
This is the use of threats to obtain the property of another.
What is extortion?
400
A person acts under this when he or she does something as a result of coercion or a threat of immediate danger to life or personal safety.
What is duress?
500
A legal way for the United States to make a provision less enforceable than it might otherwise be.
What are reservations?
500
Courts sometimes order these, requiring criminals to pay back or otherwise compensate the victims.
What is restitution?
500
These require proof of criminal intent but can be punished even if the harm intended never occurred.
What are inchoate crimes?
500
The offering to someone a document as genuine although it is known to be a fake.
What is uttering?
500
A person acts under this when he or she is compelled to react to a situation that is unavoidable in order to protect life.