CHAPTER #4

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637
Across
  1. 7. A guilty (prohibited) act.
  2. 12. A strict liability crime in which an adult engages in sexual act with a minor.
  3. 14. Violence The act of willful neglect or physical violence that occurs within a cohabitant relationship.
  4. 15. Failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.
  5. 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.
  6. 19. The rules of law announced in court decisions
  7. 22. An unlawful homicide that occurs during the commission of a felony.
  8. 24. Rules that define the manner in which the rights and duties of individuals may be enforced.
  9. 27. The facts surrounding a criminal event.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 34. The legally recognized privilege to protect ones self or property from injury by another.
  13. 35. The body of circumstances that must exist for a criminal act to have occurred.
  14. 36. An excuse from criminal liability that asserts a lack of criminal responsibility.
  15. 37. A provision in the Constitution that stated that the law must be carried out in a fair and orderly manner.
Down
  1. 1. A common law test of criminal responsibility that relies on the defendants inability to distinguish right from wrong
  2. 2. The body of law enacted by legislative bodies.
  3. 3. Mental state, or intent.
  4. 4. A defense against criminal liability in which the defendant asserts that circumstances required her or him to commit an illegal act.
  5. 5. The act of taking substantial steps toward committing a crime while having the ability and the intent to commit the crime.
  6. 6. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
  7. 8. Law that defines the rights and duties of individuals with respect to one another.
  8. 9. The state of being aware that a risk does or will exist that consciously disregards that risk.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 13. Neglecting or forgetting to do something that is required by law.
  12. 16. A court decision that is used as a guidance for deciding a subsequent case with similar facts.
  13. 18. A condition that excused young wrong-doers of criminal behavior because presumably they could not understand the consequences of their actions.
  14. 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.
  15. 21. Latin for "after the fact", it refers to a law making a certain act illegal after that act was committed.
  16. 23. Unlawful pressure brought to bear on a person, causing the person to perform an act that he or she would not otherwise perform.
  17. 25. The constitutional requirement that laws used in accusing and convicting persons of crime.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 30. Law based on the US Constitution and the constitutions of the various states
  23. 31. To assist legislatures in making an effort to update and standardize the penal law.