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- 7. used to determine factual causality
- 9. the encouraging, requesting, or commanding of another person to commit a crime
- 11. one who assists in the commission of a crime but does not commit the actus reus is called an accomplice
- 13. One that makes an action done before the passing of the law criminal and punishes such action.Aggravates a crime, or makes it more serious than it was when committed
- 14. another aspect of due process which refers to a statute defining a crime that is so unclear that a reasonable person of at least average intelligence could not determine what the law purports to command or prohibit
- 15. "Body of crime"
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- 1. prohibited by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- 2. The Model Penal Code (M P C) defines attempt as a specific intent crime, the defendant must have the commission of a specific crime as a purpose.
- 3. Attendant circumstances refer to the “facts surrounding an event” and include such things as time and place.
- 4. holds that behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.
- 5. the need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity is often cited as a general feature of crime
- 6. a relationship between mens rea, act, and
- 8. a type of criminal law violation in which parties to the crime willfully participate and in which the element of harm seems remote
- 10. a legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
- 12. require at least two individuals, so at least two must be convicted of the crime.