Chapters 1 & 2
Serious crimes that are generally punishable by one year or more in prison
What is a felony?
The criminal act or the physical element in criminal liability.
What is actus reus?
The requirement that actus reus must join with mens rea to produce criminal conduct or that conduct must cause a harmful result.
The specific intent to act and/or cause criminal harm.
What is purpose?
The reason why a defendant commits a crime.
What is motive?
Private wrongs for which you can sue the party that wronged you and recover money
What is a tort?
The parts of a crime that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
What is elements of a crime?
Crimes requiring a criminal act triggered by criminal intent.
What is conduct crimes?
Consciously acting or causing a result.
What is knowledge?
The subjective judgement that it's fair and just to blame the defendant for the bad result.
What is legal cause?
What is a bench trial?
The "state of mind" the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, criminal intent from an evil mind, and the mental element in crime.
What is mens rea?
The voluntary bodily movements of the crime?
What is criminal acts?
The conscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks.
What is recklessness?
The objective determination that a criminal intent has to trigger a chain of criminal events that ended as the harmful result.
What is cause in fact?
Punishment considered no longer acceptable.
What is barbaric punishment?
Properly applies to the elements of criminal conduct. Latin for "body of the crime."
What is corpus delicti?
Failure to report and failure to intervene.
What is criminal omissions?
The unconscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks.
What is negligence.
The idea that we can only punish people that we can blame, and that we can only blame people that are responsible for what they do; blameworthiness.
What is culpability?
What is ex post facto law?
A circumstance connected to an act, an intent, and or a result required to make an act criminal.
What is attendant circumstances element?
Two requirements for a criminal act.
What is bodily movement and free will.
The most blameworthy and mental state.
What is purposely?
Fault that requires a "bad mind" in the actor.
What is Subjective Fault?