Definitions
The Act.
What is Actus Reus?
Punishment prevents offender from reoffending.
What is Deterrence?
The theft of the property vs. the theft directly from a person.
What is Larceny vs. Robbery?
A person steals from someone with lies.
What is obtaining property by false pretenses?
The Intent.
What is Mens Rea?
Isolation, removing the offender from society.
What is Incapacitation?
Attempted contact (unwanted/harmful way) vs. actual contact.
What is Assault vs. Battery?
A person uses something against another person to gain control over their actions.
What is blackmail, the charge of extortion?
The act must cause harm.
What is Causation?
Changing behavior of offender to prevent reoffending.
What is Rehabilitation?
Crazy without knowledge of what is right and wrong vs. not crazy, just a decrease in brain function.
What is legal insanity vs. diminished capacity?
Someone takes a person, moves that person to another location, against the will of the person and/or with trickery.
What is kidnapping?
The act and intent must happen at the same time.
What is Concurrence?
No man is above the law.
What is Rule of Law?
A person that has committed a crime of their own free will vs. a person tricked into committing a crime.
What is freely committed crime vs. entrapment?
Someone causing/creating a fire.
What is arson?
Vengeance, an eye for an eye.
What is Retribution?
Illegal conduct must be defined by statute or it's not punishable.
What is Principle of Legality?
Immediate and true threat vs. feeling threatened.
What is reasonable actual threat vs. reasonable subjective threat?
A person commits breaking an entering of a building with the intent to steal.
What is burglary?