Unlawfully entering a building or premise with intent to commit a crime.
What is burglary?
100
Literally "the body of the crime;" the fact a crime has been committed.
What is corpus delicti?
100
Sexual activity between relatives within a proscribed degree of sanguinity or affinity.
What is incest?
100
Crimes committed recklessly.
What is third degree?
100
A wrong against society.
What is a crime?
200
Graffiti.
What is malicious mischief?
200
The study of law.
What is jurisprudence?
200
The killing of a human being.
What is homicide?
200
Evil act; the criminal act.
What is actus reus?
200
The prosecution's burden of proof in a criminal case.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
300
The taking of personal property from the person of another against his will, by either force or threat of force.
What is robbery?
300
A document that spells out clearly what steps should be taken to revive a person and under what circumstances.
What is living will or health care directive?
300
Bias-motivated crimes.
What are hate crimes?
300
The offender's conscious intentions at the time of the crime.
What is subjective intent?
300
The most serious classification of crimes punishable by long prison term or death.
What are felonies?
400
Stealing through surreptitious means, such as fraud.
What is theft by deception?
400
Crimes that are criminal because society has chosen to criminalize specific behaviors.
What is mala prohibita?
400
The use, conversion, or retention of property legally possessed by the perpetrator, but belonging to another.
What is embezzlement?
400
Intent to kill or injure, or the deliberate commission of a dangerous or deadly act.
What is malice aforethought?
400
The king can do no harm; a holdover from the English legal system.
What is soverign immunity?
500
The breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with intent to commit a felony.
What is common law burglary?
500
When criminals deposit a check into one account, which is drawn on another's bank account, and then draws on the deposit knowing that the deposited check is no good.
What is check kiting?
500
The type of intent where the person commits an act designed to cause a specific criminal result.