Crimonology crossqord
Across
- 2. a criminal statute that punishes actions retroactively, thereby criminalizing conduct that was legal when originally performed
- 6. alcohol and drug offenses, prostitution, and pornography
- 10. when a person can be held legally responsible for breaking the law
- 13. the defendant starts the chain of events leading to the harm
- 14. the action of causing something.
- 15. elements of a crime that are not the general elements
Down
- 1. the prosecution of a person twice for the same offense.
- 3. the facts and circumstances constituting a breach of a law.
- 4. the intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused.
- 5. an actual intent to perform some act, but without a wish for the consequences that result from that act
- 7. where the conduct used is the offence, and there is no no required result element
- 8. a declaration that a law is invalid because it is not sufficiently clear
- 9. action or conduct which is a constituent element of a crime, as opposed to the mental state of the accused.
- 11. a piece of legislation that declares a party is guilty of a crime
- 12. developed in the eighteenth century by the Italian criminal lawyer Cesare Beccaria