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