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