Across
- 2. behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.(3 words)
- 4. holds individuals criminally liable for causing harm
- 6. "Means body of crime" (2 words)
- 8. used to determine factual causality (4 words)
- 13. defining a crime that is so unclear that a reasonable person could not determine what the law purports to command or prohibit(3 words)
- 14. The circumstances other than actus reus, mens rea and the result that define the crime (2 words)
- 15. The criminal mind (2 words)
Down
- 1. a defendant is liable for committing an act regardless of mental state.(2 words)
- 3. a relationship between the mens rea, act, and resulting harm
- 5. a victimless crime (3 words
- 7. the need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity (2 words)
- 9. an action done before the passing of the law criminal and punishes such action (4 words)
- 10. The criminal act (2 words)
- 11. considered another form of action
- 12. cannot be tried or punished a 2nd time for the same offense (2 words)