The branch of law dealing with the definition and enforcement of all private or public rights, as opposed to criminal matters.
What is Civil Law?
100
A criminal justice model in which the majority of citizens in a society share the same values and beliefs. Criminal acts are acts that conflict with these values and beliefs and that are deemed harmful to society
What is Consensus Model?
100
The first 10 amendments to the constitution. They contain the most important protections from the government
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
You don't have the ability to distinguish from right from wrong.
What is the insanity defense?
200
Guilty mind
What is Mens Rea
200
The person or institution that initiates a lawsuit in civil court proceedings by filing a complaint.
Who is the Plaintiff?
200
To use force to take property. You can't do this to a house.
What is robbery?
200
Offenses that are illegal because laws define them as such.
What is mala prohibita?
300
When a government agent entices you to commit a crime?
Entrapment
300
The injury or loss due to a crime
What is harm?
300
In a civil court, the person or institution against whom an action is brought .
Who is the Defendant?
300
committing crimes to further the interests of an organization or gang.
What is Organized crime?
300
The fourth amendment protects against this.
What is a unlawful search and seizure?
400
I am 6 and can't form the required intent to be found guilty of a crime.
What is Infancy?
400
The idea that the guilty mind and guilty act must happen together.
What is concurrence?
400
The degree of proof required to find the defendant guilty in a criminal trial.
What is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
400
A criminal justice model that places primacy on the rights of the individual to be protected from the power of the government.
What is the Due Process Model?
500
This defense also applies to the protection of others.
What is self defense?
500
Knowingly, Haphazardly, Recklessly, purposefully. The one that isn't a state of mind in criminal law.
What is Haphazardly?
500
The standard of proof needed in a civil trial.
What is a preponderance of the evidence?
500
A descriptive term for acts that are inherently wrong, regardless of whether they are prohibited by law.