Chapter 6 Criminal Law Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. an agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur
  2. 7. legal responsibility for wrongful action
  3. 9. federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare
  4. 11. the body of laws that prohibit and punish acts that injure people, property and society as a whole
  5. 15. offences that do not rehire mens era and to which the accused can offer no defence
  6. 21. consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take
  7. 22. an awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
  8. 23. the defence that took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular offence
  9. 24. a state of mind in which someone desires to carry out a wrongful action, knows what the results will be and is reckless regarding the consequences
  10. 27. the desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose
Down
  1. 1. wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death
  2. 2. the person who actually commits the crime
  3. 3. laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level; most often punishable by fines
  4. 4. a criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime
  5. 5. a crime that involves advising, recommending or persuading another person to commit a criminal offence
  6. 8. those people who are indirectly involved in committing a crime
  7. 10. a deliberate closing of one's mind to the possible consequences of one's actions
  8. 12. the guilty act
  9. 13. the shared responsibility among criminals for an additional offences that are committed in the course of the crime they originally intended to commit
  10. 14. the reason a person commits a crime
  11. 16. offences that do not require tens era but to which the accused can offer the defence of due diligence
  12. 17. someone who knowingly receives, comforts or assists a perpetrator in escaping the police
  13. 18. an act or omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute
  14. 19. the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another
  15. 20. a deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences
  16. 25. the crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence
  17. 26. the intention to commit a come, even when the crime is not complete