The Nature of Crime

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Across
  1. 2. The defence the accused took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular offence
  2. 4. laws federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare
  3. 6. consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take
  4. 7. offences that do not require mens rea and to which the accused can offer no defence.
  5. 10. a crime that is considered less serious and carries a lighter penalty. (Generally fined up to $2000 and/or imprisoned for up to six months)
  6. 12. legal responsibility for a wrongful action
  7. 13. a crime that involves advising, recommending, or persuading another person to commit a criminal offence
  8. 14. someone who knowingly receives, comforts, or assists a perpetrator in escaping from the police
  9. 15. wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death
  10. 16. “the guilty act” the voluntary action, omission, or state of being that is forbidden by the Criminal Code
  11. 17. an agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur
  12. 18. “the guilty mind” demonstrates that the act was intentional, knowing, negligent, reckless, or wilfully blind or a deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences
  13. 22. a deliberate closing of one’s mind to the possible consequences of one’s actions
  14. 24. the reason a person commits a crime
  15. 25. the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another
Down
  1. 1. a crime that is considered less serious and carries a lighter penalty. (Generally fined up to $2000 and/or imprisoned for up to six months)
  2. 3. criminal laws Laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level, most often punishable by fines
  3. 5. an awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
  4. 7. the intention to commit a crime, even when the crime is not committed.
  5. 8. offenses that do not require mens rea but to which the accused can offer the defence of due diligence (the defence that the accused person took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular crime)
  6. 9. an agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur.
  7. 11. the desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose
  8. 19. a criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime
  9. 20. the person who actually commits the crime
  10. 21. the crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence
  11. 23. 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