Homicide
If you kill an enemy combatant during a war it would be considered ______________ homicide.
Noncriminal
Threatening a person with physical violence.
Assault
The person who commits the crime
Principal
The crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation.
Robbery
Protecting oneself in a way that is proportionate to the threat.
Self-defense
Having a guilty state of mind - required by most crimes.
Mens rea
This type of murder is planned out and premeditated.
First Degree
What crime occurs when a person knocks, jolts, and runs into other people who are in a crowd with him?
No crime. A person consents to jostling when in a crowd.
A person who voluntarily helps another person commit a crime.
Accomplice
A crime that occurs upon entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offense.
Burglary
A lack of understanding of the wrongfulness of the offending conduct or the inability to conform one's conduct to the law.
Insanity
Bertha and Bob plan to overthrow the American government by selling secrets to other governments. What crime have they committed?
Conspiracy
A killing that results from reckless driving would qualify as this type of homicide.
Negligent homicide
Taking a person away against that person's will.
Kidnapping
A person who helps commit a crime but is usually not present at the crime.
Accessory
The taking of money or property by a person to whom it has been entrusted.
Embezzlement
Being forced into an unlawful act by threat of death or serious injury.
Duress
Give two examples of noncriminal homicide.
Two kids are playing with a loaded gun and one accidentally shoots and kills the other. What type of homicide took place?
Involuntary manslaughter
The act of unlawful sexual intercourse by an adult with someone under the age of consent.
Statutory rape
A person who knows a crime has been committed and helps the principal or accomplice avoid capture.
Accessory after the fact
"Graffiti" is an example of this type of crime.
Vandalism
The defense of a person considered not yet legally responsible for his/her actions.
Infancy
The act of requesting or strongly urging someone to do something illegal.
Solicitation
When a killing occurs while committing another crime (e.g. burglary, arson, kidnapping...), what is the crime called?
Felony murder
All murders/homicides have this element present. It means the intent to kill or seriously harm or disregard human life.
Malice
Which of the two, accomplice or accessory, is considered to be the greater criminal offender, subject to a greater criminal penalty?
Accomplice
The use of threats to obtain property from another
Extortion
An excuse or plea that a person was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed.
Alibi
What Ohio calls first degree murder.
Aggravated murder