Crime Definitions Flashcards
(24 cards)
What is the definition of Abettor?
Any person who incites instigates, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.
What is the definition of Accessory?
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance either before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.
What is the definition of Assault?
A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another whether or not actual injury is inflicted
What is the definition of Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice?
A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice
What is the definition of a breach of the peace?
A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.
What is the definition of Contempt of Court
An intentional disrespect or action against the court’s authority.
What is the definition of Culpable and Reckless Fireraising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
What is the definition of Culpable Homicide
A crime at Common Law and it is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person where death is caused by improper conduct but the guilt is less than murder.
What is the definition of Forgery and Uttering
A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person
What is the definition of Fraud
Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful Imposition
What is the definition of Hate Crime?
A crime motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group
What is the definition of Homicide?
When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self existent, not an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.
What is the definition of House?
Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons.
What is the definition of Lockfast Place?
Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key.
What is the definition of Malicious Mischief?
A crime at Common Law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.
What is the definition of Murder?
A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences.
What is the definition of Offensive Weapon?
Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or by some other person
What is the definition of Perjury?
A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.
What is the definition of Principal?
Is the person who actually commits the crime.
What is the definition of Reset?
A crime at common law committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner, to receive and keep property, knowing it had been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud.
What is the definition of Robbery?
A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
What is the definition of Subornation of Perjury?
A crime at common law committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means, a person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings.
What is the definition of Theft?
A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner.
What is the definition of Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995)?
Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse.
