Chapter 6
A criminal act and a criminal mind.
What are Actus reus and mens rea?
The site where a crime took place.
What is a crime scene?
The 2 classifications of homicide.
What are culpable and non-culpable homicide?
A defence that states the accused what somewhere else when the crime was comitted.
What is alibi
An example of non-culpable murder.
What is accident, military service...?
The year the criminal code was passed.
What is 1892?
The loss or destruction of physical evidence.
What is contamination?
The death of an infant under 12 months of age by the child's mother, due to a mental disorder.
What is infanticide?
A victim of an unprovoked attach may use reasonable force to defend against an attack, by claiming this defence.
What is self-defence?
An undercover officer induces criminal behavior. The accused can use this defence.
What is entrapement?
The deliberate closing of ones mind to the consequences of their actions.
What is willful blindness?
The 2 types of fingerprints.
What is latent and visable?
Steeling from someone's person with a threat of bodily harm.
What is robbery?
A defence that states that the accused had no reasonable alternative to committing an illegal act.
What is necessity?
The maximum penalty for an indictable offence.
What is life in prison?
Encouraging a person to commit a crime.
What is abetting?
The witnessed, written record of people who maintained unbroken control over evidence.
What is chain of custody?
The amount of alcohol in one's bloodstream that would determine if they were impaired.
What is 80mg?
The defence that states that a person may not be tried twice for the same offence.
What is double jeopardy?
The trial process for a summary offence.
What is trial by judge alone or the accused may be present or represented by their lawyer?
Due diligence is a defence for this type of offence.
Strict liability offence
The provinces who have a provincial police force.
What are Ontario, Quebec and NFLD/Lab?
This drug related offence must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
What is trafficking?
Making an honest mistake regarding a situation that led to breaking the law.
What is mistake of fact?
The 2 incomplete crimes.
What are conspiracy and attempt?
The shared responsibility among criminals for any additional offences that are committed in the course of the crime that they originally intended to commit.
What is party to common intention?
A warrant issued when the suspect of a serious crime is not considered to be a flight risk.
What is an arrest warrant?
Reporting a crime to the police that has not really happened.
What is public mischief?
The 2 opportunities when the defence of intoxication may be used.
What is in crimes of general intent and when the crime is so severe it is as a mental disorder (can not form intent)?
The official definition of Crime.
What is an act or omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute?