Chapter 8 Vocab

Question 0

State of mind

Answer 0

What you are thinking; most crimes requires that the actor have a guilty state of mind, meaning that he or she purposefully commits the prohibited act.

Question 1

Strict liability

Answer 1

The legal responsibility for damage or injury even if you are not negligent.

Question 2

Motive

Answer 2

The reason a person commits a crime.

Question 3

Elements

Answer 3

The conditions that make an act unlawful.

Question 4

Felony

Answer 4

A serious criminal offense punishable by a prison sentence of more than one year.

Question 5

Misdemeanor

Answer 5

A criminal offense, less serious than a felony, punishable by a prison sentence of one year or less.

Question 6

Principal

Answer 6

The person who commits a crime

Question 7

Accomplice

Answer 7

A person who voluntarily helps another person commit a crime; unlike an accessory

Question 8

Accessory before the fact

Answer 8

A person who orders a crime or helps the principal commit the crime but who is not present during the crime.

Question 9

Accessory after the fact

Answer 9

A person who, knowing a crime has been committed, helps the principle or and an accomplice avoid capture or helps them escape.

Question 10

Crime of omission

Answer 10

Failing to perform an act required by criminal law.

Question 11

Solicitation

Answer 11

The act of requesting or strongly urging someone to do something. If the request is to do something illegal, solicitation is considered a crime.

Question 12

Attempt

Answer 12

An affect to commit a crime that goes beyond mere preparation but does not result in the commission of the crime.

Question 13

Conspiracy

Answer 13

An argument between two or more persons to commit a crime along with the substitutional act toward committing the crime.

Question 14

Overt

Answer 14

Open; clean (for example, an overt acts in the criminal law is more than mere preparation to do something; it is at least the first step of actually attempting the crime.)

Question 15

Mens Ria

Answer 15

The Latin term used by lawyers when they discuss the requirement for a guilty state of mind.

Question 16

Inchoate crimes

Answer 16

Crimes that are committed before or in preparation for committing another crime.

Question 17

Statutory crime

Answer 17

The act of unlawful sexual intercourse by an adult with someone under the age of concent, even if the minor is a willing and voluntary participant in the sexual act.