Elements of a crime

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Across
  1. 1. A criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime.
  2. 5. negligence Wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death.
  3. 9. diligence The defence that the accused took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular offence.
  4. 12. Consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take.
  5. 15. after the fact: Someone who knowingly receives, comforts, or assists a perpetrator in escaping from the police.
  6. 16. laws Federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare.
  7. 17. liability offences Offences that do not require mens rea but to which the accused can offer the defence of due diligence.
  8. 19. An agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur.
  9. 20. A crime that involves advising, recommending, or persuading another person to commit a criminal offence.
  10. 21. The intention to commit a crime, even when the crime is not completed.
Down
  1. 1. reus "The guilty act" - the voluntary action, omission, or state of being that is forbidden by the Criminal Code.
  2. 2. intent The desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose.
  3. 3. The reason a person commits a crime.
  4. 4. to an offence Those people who are indirectly involved in committing a crime.
  5. 6. Legal responsibility for a wrongful action.
  6. 7. The person who actually commits the crime.
  7. 8. 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.
  8. 10. laws Laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level, most often punishable by fines.
  9. 11. An act or omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute.
  10. 13. An awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea.
  11. 14. rea A deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, whith reckless disregard for the consequences.
  12. 15. The crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence.
  13. 17. intent The desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another.
  14. 18. liability offences: Offences that do not require mens rea and to which the accused can offer no defence.
  15. 22. to common intention The shared responsibility among criminals for any additional offences that are committed in the course of the crime they originally intended to commit.