Criminal Law Vocab
This refers to a person's guilty mind or intent when committing a crime.
What is mens rea?
This policing strategy focuses on building relationships between police and communities.
What is community policing?
This law categorized drugs into schedules based on abuse and medical use.
What is the Controlled Substances Act of 1970?
This crime involves threatening someone with harm
What is assault?
This athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals in history.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This refers to the physical act of committing a crime.
What is actus reus?
This court case deals with the 2nd Amendment and gun rights.
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
This period in U.S. history banned alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
This mental state involves reckless disregard for human life.
What is malice?
This wall fell in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the legal term for a crime that results in someone’s death.
What is homicide?
This database checks if someone is eligible to purchase a firearm.
What is NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System)?
This law makes it illegal for minors to have any measurable alcohol in their system.
What is the Zero Tolerance Law?
This type of killing lacks malice and is often unplanned.
What is manslaughter?
This tennis player has won the most Grand Slam singles titles in men’s history.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
This term refers to unlawful physical contact with another person.
What is battery?
The U.S. is known as this because of its high incarceration rate.
What is the incarceration capital of the world?
This substance is the most widely abused in the United States.
What is alcohol?
This group is the most common victim in stalking cases.
Who are women?
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling starred in this 2016 movie together.
What is La La Land?
This term means payment made to a victim for damages or loss.
What is Restitution?
This factor is strongly connected to crime rates, especially during downturns.
What is the economy?
This act regulated firearms and restricted certain people from owning guns.
What is the Gun Control Act of 1968?
This behavior is considered a gateway behavior to more serious crimes.
What is bullying?
Bear Bryant led Maryland and two other schools before rolling to 232 wins at this university.
Who is Bear Bryant?