Definitions Flashcards
(31 cards)
Abettor
Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.
Accessory
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime or offence is committed.
Attempt to pervert course of justice
A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated to interfere with the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice
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.
Contempt of court
an intentional disrespect or action against a courts authority.
Culpable and reckless fire-raising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused
Culpable Homocide
A crime at common law and is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person where death is a caused by improper conduct but the guilt is less than murder.
Culpable and reckless conduct
No specific definition.
Culpable and reckless acts which cause injury to others or create a risk of injury.
Behaviour must show an utter disregard for consequences - throwing a bottle out of a window.
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
Fraud
Falsehood - pretend
Fraud. - Intend
Wilful imposition - Obtain
Hate crime
Any crime motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group
Homocide
When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self existent and not an unborn child. However if the child has begun to breathe it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery
Murder
A crime at common law and is committed by a person who kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show an utter disregard for the consequences
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.
Malicious mischief
A crime at common law constituted by the wilful and wanton and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another
Offensive weapon
Any article made or adapted for the intention 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
Perjury
A crime a common law and is committed by any person who wilfully make false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath
Principle
Person who actually commits the crime
Robbery
A crime at common law committed by another person who feloniously appropriates property by means of violence or threats of violence
Reset
A crime at common law committed by any person with the intent to deprive the owner to receive and keep property knowing that it has been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement Or fraud
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
Theft
A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property with the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority
Vandalism
S52 of the 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
Wasting police time
A crime at common law committed by another person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police with the intention and effect of causing unnecessary police investigation
