Chapter 5
The specific intent to act and/or cause a criminal harm
What is purpose?
What is Insanity?
Participants before and during the commission of crimes
What is an accomplice?
What is criminal attempt?
The crime of killing a fetus
What is feticide?
Consciously acting or causing a result
What is knowledge?
Psychologist call it "cognition" ; the ability to tell right from wrong
What is reason?
Participants after the crime is committed
What is an accessory?
Making an agreement to commit a crime
What is criminal conspiracy?
Killing a person with "malice aforethought"
What is murder?
The conscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks
What is recklessness?
Most courts define it as psychosis; mostly paranoia and schizophrenia
What is mental disease?
Persons who actually commit the crime
What is Principles in the First Degree?
Trying to get someone else to commit a crime
What is manslaughter?
The unconscious creation of substantial and unjustifiable risks
What is negligence?
Refers to mental retardation or brain damage severe enough to make it impossible to know what you're doing, or if you know, you do not know that it is wrong
What is mental defect?
Persons present when the crime is committed and who help commit it (lookouts and getaway drivers)
What is Principles in the Second Degree?
Looks at how close defendants came to completing their crimes
Killing in self-defense
What is justifiable homicide?
The most blameworthy mental state
What is purposely?
Psychologists call it "volition," most of us call it "willpower," in the insanity tests it refers to a defendant's power to control their actions
What is will?
An agreement to commit some other crime
What is conspiracy?
Concentrates on how fully defendants have developed their intent to commit their crime
What is dangerous person rationale?
Killings done by someone "not of sound memory and discretion"
What is excusable homicide?