Crime 1
This is a serious criminal offense, often resulting in a prison sentence of more than a year.
#13 A felony is a serious criminal offense, often resulting in a prison sentence of more than a year.
This is a less serious criminal offense, often resulting in a prison sentence of less than a year.
#13 A misdemeanor is a less serious criminal offense, often resulting in a prison sentence of less than a year.
This is the reason the person committed the crime.
#11 Motive is the reason a person commits the crime.
#29 A person is not able to give consent in a statutory rape situation, when unconscious or mentally incompetent, or if drugs or alcohol impair the victim’s judgment.
#30 This is a behavior that has helped prevent crimes against property in recent years?
#30 Security lighting, home and car alarms, steering wheel locks, greater attention to locking doors and windows, and the tendency to carry less cash due to the greater use of credit cards are all behaviors that have helped prevent crimes against property.
#19 An overt act is often required for a conviction on conspiracy charges. This is the meaning of overt.
#19 An overt, or act that is open to view, is often required for a conviction on conspiracy charges.
This is a killing that results when a reasonable person loses self-control.
#23 Voluntary manslaughter is a killing that results when a reasonable person loses self-control. It is punished less severely because humans have frail character.
#20 This is the difference between homicide and murder.
#20 Homicide is the killing of one human being by another, murder is homicide with malice (intent).
#8 This is a crime that involves hostility against people because of color, race, or ethnic origin, which often carries a harsher sentence?
#8 A hate crime is a crime that involves hostility against people because of color, race, or ethnic origin, which often carries a harsher sentence?
#16 This occurs when someone fails to perform an act required by criminal law (if he or she is physically able).
#16 A crime of omission is when someone fails to perform an act required by criminal law (if he or she is physically able).
#10 A guilty state of mind usually means that the unlawful act was done willfully, knowingly, and intentionally.
#4 In the Heller case, the Supreme Court decided this.
#4 The ruling was that individuals have a federal right to own a handgun for protection.
#21 This is two examples of non-criminal homicide.
#21 Non-criminal homicide is when a soldier kills someone in war, a police officer kills someone that is a threat to others, and in cases of self-defense or defense of others.
This means that the driver agrees to submit to a blood-alcohol content test (BAC) in exchange for the privilege of driving.
#5 Most states have an implied consent law which means that the driver agrees to submit to a blood-alcohol content test (BAC) in exchange for the privilege of driving.
Two examples of this are buying alcohol for minors and statutory rape.
#12 A strict liability offense is a crime no matter the knowledge or intent of the person committing the act. Some examples are statutory rape and buying alcohol for minors.
We have these to prevent the actual crimes from happening
#18 We have inchoate crimes to prevent the actual crimes from happening and prevent future crimes.
#3 This is a way that social media influence (or cause) crime?
#3 Criminals look for ways to steal personal information from people on social media (identity theft), burglars look for when people are gone from their homes, pedophiles might try to connect with kids on social media.
#32 This is two ways to prevent identity theft today.
#32 Check your credit report, protect your personal information at home if you have a roommate, use passwords that are not easy to guess, do not give out personal information unless you know who you're dealing with and are confident your info will be handled securely, guard your mail and trash from theft, avoid giving out social security number when possible, pay attention to bank statements and credit card charges.
#7 This is what drug courts are.
#7 A drug court is for nonviolent offenders who have committed drug crimes. If they submit to regular testing, enroll in a treatment program, and stay sober, they will avoid jail time.
#2 These are 5 things that can influence crime rate.
#2 Location, age, gender, socio-economic status, employment, education, drugs and alcohol, parenting, breakdown of society’s morals, media, social media, television, movies, and music can influence the crime rate in the U.S.