Ch. 3 Criminal Law

7. used to determine factual causality
9. the encouraging, requesting, or commanding of another person to commit a crime
11. one who assists in the commission of a crime but does not commit the actus reus is called an accomplice
13. One that makes an action done before the passing of the law criminal and punishes such action.Aggravates a crime, or makes it more serious than it was when committed
14. another aspect of due process which refers to a statute defining a crime that is so unclear that a reasonable person of at least average intelligence could not determine what the law purports to command or prohibit
15. "Body of crime"

1. prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
2. The Model Penal Code (M P C) defines attempt as a specific intent crime, the defendant must have the commission of a specific crime as a purpose.
3. Attendant circumstances refer to the “facts surrounding an event” and include such things as time and place.
4. holds that behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.
5. the need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity is often cited as a general feature of crime
6. a relationship between mens rea, act, and
8. a type of criminal law violation in which parties to the crime willfully participate and in which the element of harm seems remote
10. a legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
12. require at least two individuals, so at least two must be convicted of the crime.