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2. Makes an action that was done before a law against was passed to be criminal and punished for that action. This can also aggravate a crime from the time it was committed.
6. a type of criminal law violation in which parties to the crime willfully participate and in which the element of harm seems remote
9. 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.
10. the need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity is often cited as a general feature of crime

1. This ensures that an individual can not be tried or punished twice for the same offenses.
3. Translates to the “body of crime”
4. They are additional facts that define the crime
5. a relationship between the mens rea, act, and resulting harm
7. a legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
8. Holds that behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.