CHAPTER #4
Across
- 7. A guilty (prohibited) act.
- 12. A strict liability crime in which an adult engages in sexual act with a minor.
- 14. Violence The act of willful neglect or physical violence that occurs within a cohabitant relationship.
- 15. Failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.
- 17. A test for the insanity defense stating a defendant who knew his or her action was wrong must establish that he or she was unable to resist the urge to commit the crime.
- 19. The rules of law announced in court decisions
- 22. An unlawful homicide that occurs during the commission of a felony.
- 24. Rules that define the manner in which the rights and duties of individuals may be enforced.
- 27. The facts surrounding a criminal event.
- 32. Certain crimes, such as traffic violations, in which the defendant is guilty regardless of her or his state of mind at the time of the act.
- 33. A defense in which the defendant claims that he or she was induced by a public official to commit a crime that he or she would otherwise not have committed.
- 34. The legally recognized privilege to protect ones self or property from injury by another.
- 35. The body of circumstances that must exist for a criminal act to have occurred.
- 36. An excuse from criminal liability that asserts a lack of criminal responsibility.
- 37. A provision in the Constitution that stated that the law must be carried out in a fair and orderly manner.
Down
- 1. A common law test of criminal responsibility that relies on the defendants inability to distinguish right from wrong
- 2. The body of law enacted by legislative bodies.
- 3. Mental state, or intent.
- 4. A defense against criminal liability in which the defendant asserts that circumstances required her or him to commit an illegal act.
- 5. The act of taking substantial steps toward committing a crime while having the ability and the intent to commit the crime.
- 6. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
- 8. Law that defines the rights and duties of individuals with respect to one another.
- 9. The state of being aware that a risk does or will exist that consciously disregards that risk.
- 10. A test that states a person is not responsible for criminal behavior if he or she had no awareness of wrongdoing or was unable to control his or her actions.
- 11. Offense Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent.
- 13. Neglecting or forgetting to do something that is required by law.
- 16. A court decision that is used as a guidance for deciding a subsequent case with similar facts.
- 18. A condition that excused young wrong-doers of criminal behavior because presumably they could not understand the consequences of their actions.
- 20. The requirement that a person claiming self-defense prove that she or he first took reasonable steps to avoid the conflict that resulted in the use of deadly force.
- 21. Latin for "after the fact", it refers to a law making a certain act illegal after that act was committed.
- 23. Unlawful pressure brought to bear on a person, causing the person to perform an act that he or she would not otherwise perform.
- 25. The constitutional requirement that laws used in accusing and convicting persons of crime.
- 26. A defense for criminal liability in which the defendant claims that the taking of intoxicants rendered him or her unable to form the requisite intent to commit a criminal act.
- 27. The body of law created by administrative agencies (in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions) in order to carry out their duties.
- 28. The provisions of the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution that gaurantee that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or poverty without due process of law.
- 29. A hearing to determine the culpability of a mentally ill individual, ordered on motion by the defendant or the attorney for the Government, or by the court.
- 30. Law based on the US Constitution and the constitutions of the various states
- 31. To assist legislatures in making an effort to update and standardize the penal law.