Crime,Crime, and more Crime
In 1962, after the adoption of this code, more than forty states changed their criminal codes.
What is the Model Penal Code?
A trial without a jury.
What is a Bench Trial?
It imposes a legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers.
What is the "Good Samaritan" Doctrine?
Conscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks.
What is Recklessness?
An offense that is punishable to a year or more in the state prison.
What is a Felony?
According to Griswold v. Connecticut, this describes the constitutional right to privacy.
What is a Fundamental Right?
A failure to act.
What is an Omission?
Criminal liability without subjective or objective fault
What is Strict Liability?
People who have the assumption that justice is best served by sending convicted offenders to prison.
Who are Retributionist?
Laws that are forbidden by the Constitution.
What are Ex Post Facto Laws?
A legal fiction that turns int an act, although it is really a passive state.
What is Possession?
Failure-of-proof defenses
What are Mistakes?
These sentencing laws make prison release dependent on rehabilitation.
What are indeterminate sentencing laws?
A case the Supreme Court rule that it violates the Constitution to execute a mentally retarded criminal defendant.
What is the Atkins v. Virginia. (2002) Case?
A modern phrase that comes from the ancient idea of manifest criminality.
What is "Caught Red-Handed"?
Intent to commit a criminal act defined in a statute.
What is General Intent?
To obtain a conviction, the prosecution must prove every element of the offense.
What is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
A case that the U.S. Supreme Court took a "hands off" approach to sentencing procedures.
What is Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000) Case?
Only voluntary acts qualify as criminal.
What is Actus Reus?
The mental element of crime.
What is Mens Rea?