Criminal Law & Punishment in Society
What is the term for the physical, voluntary criminal act, which must be accompanied by a guilty mind?
What is Actus Reus?
What is the principle that statutes violate due process if they don’t define a crime and its punishment clearly enough for ordinary people to know what is lawful?
What is Void for vagueness?
What is the requirement that mental attitudes must turn into actions for a “crime” to be committed?
What is the manifest criminality?
What is a fault that requires a “bad mind” in the actor?
What is a subjective fault?
What event comes between the initial act in a sequence and the end result?
What is an intervening cause?
Under the Model Penal Code, what is the level of culpability when an actor consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk?
What is Mens Rea?
What is a law that punishes people for a crime that was not a crime when it was committed?
What are ex post facto laws?
What are unconscious bodily movements?
What is automatism?
What requires no purposeful or conscious bad mind in the actor?
What is an objective fault?
What is the presumption that defendants knew the law they were breaking?
What is the ignorance maxim?
What is a legal wrong that justifies suing someone and getting money, usually for some personal injury?
What is a non-criminal wrong?
What is the requirement of courts to interpret ambiguous statutes in favor of defendants only in the core felony cases and other crimes requiring fault?
What is the narrow lenity rule?
What defenses are based on creating a reasonable doubt about the prosecution’s proof of a voluntary act?
What are fault-based defenses?
What is the intent to commit the criminal act forbidden by statute?
What is the general intent?
What is a liability without either subjective or objective fault?
What is strict liability?
What is a sentence of a year or more in prison?
What is hard punishment?
What is the requirement of courts to resolve every ambiguity in a criminal statute in favor of the defendant?
What is the rule of lenity?
What is the failure to act when there’s a legal duty to act?
What are criminal omissions?
What are some mental faults that trigger criminal acts in conduct crimes, and the causes of resulting crimes?
What is the principle of concurrence?
What is the idea that it’s fair and just to punish only people we can blame?
What is culpability or blameworthiness?
What are crimes that fit within the criminal law imagination and that the law should punish by locking people up?
What is punishment imagination?
What is the idea that government power should be defined and limited by laws?
What is the rule of law?
What imposes a legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers?
What is the Good Samaritan doctrine?
What is holding an actor criminally accountable for the results of her conduct?
What is causation?
What is it when you are pretending something is a fact when it’s not, if there’s a “good” reason for the pretense?
What is legal fiction?