What is considered an act against the public good?
100
A criminal act
EX.young man who fails to register for the draft after reaching his eighteenth birthday has committed a crime.
100
Insanity
What defense do people have if American law recognizes that people cannot be held responsible for their actions if they do not know what they are doing?
100
A murder
What is the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought, which means the killer had evil intent.
200
A felony
What is a major crime punishable by imprisonment or death?
200
Criminal act
the government could not make it a crime to be an alcoholic because alcoholism is a physical condition.
200
Entrapment
What defense can people use if a law enforcement officer induces a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime?
200
Hate crimes
What is a crime to use certain symbols, writings, pictures, or spoken words to cause fear or anger in people because of their race, religion, color, or gender?
300
A murder
What is the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought?
300
Required state of mind
What is a statute defining murder forbids the intentional taking of a person’s life; the required mental state is intent.
300
Self defense
What it's called when people have good reason to believe they are in danger of serious injury or death, they can use force to protect themselves?
300
Domestic violence
What crime is it where many children, spouses, and elderly people suffer harm from members of their own families?
400
A battery
What is the unlawful touching of another person?
400
Motive
Which element plays no part in proving criminal liability?
400
Defense of Family Members
What defense is it if the rescuer must have good reason to believe the victim was in danger of severe bodily injury or death?
400
Kidnapping
What is the unlawful removal or restraint of a person against his or her will?
500
An embezzlement
What is the wrongful taking of another’s property by a person who has been entrusted with that property?
500
Motive
Which element is it if a person has committed a forbidden act with the required state of mind, then he or she is criminally liable?