Across
- 2. Makes an action that was done before a law against was passed to be criminal and punished for that action. This can also aggravate a crime from the time it was committed.
- 6. a type of criminal law violation in which parties to the crime willfully participate and in which the element of harm seems remote
- 9. 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.
- 10. the need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity is often cited as a general feature of crime
Down
- 1. This ensures that an individual can not be tried or punished twice for the same offenses.
- 3. Translates to the “body of crime”
- 4. They are additional facts that define the crime
- 5. a relationship between the mens rea, act, and resulting harm
- 7. a legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
- 8. Holds that behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.