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