Chapter 6: Criminal Law Terms

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Across
  1. 3. a state of mind in which someone desires to carry out a wrongful action, knows what the results will be and is reckless regarding to consequences.
  2. 5. An awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
  3. 7. those people who are indirectly involved in committing a crime.
  4. 9. the shared responsibility among criminals for any additional offences that are committed in the course of the crime they originally intended to commit.
  5. 11. A defence used stating that the person had taken every precaution possible to avoid being a crime
  6. 13. legal responsibility for a wrongful action
  7. 16. Knowingly assisting someone to evade the police
  8. 17. Laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level; most often punishable by fines
  9. 19. Consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take
  10. 20. Laws which punish and prohibit acts that injure individuals, property, and the community
  11. 24. The offense of intending to commit a crime but is not actually completed
  12. 25. An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime
Down
  1. 1. Persuading another person to commit a crime
  2. 2. An offense which shows disregard for the lives or safety of others
  3. 4. A wrongful act committed for its’ own sake
  4. 6. An act or omission of an act prohibited and punishable by a federal statute
  5. 8. Urging the perpetrator to commit a crime without physically helping
  6. 10. Offences which have no defense possible
  7. 12. Helping a perpetrator commit a crime
  8. 14. The desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another
  9. 15. the person who actually commits the crime
  10. 18. federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare
  11. 21. A deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences
  12. 22. The “guilty act”
  13. 23. the reason a person commits a crime