Across
- 2. Behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it.
- 4. Convicttion of killing someone else
- 8. Type of criminal law violation in which parties to the crime willfully participate and in which the element of harm seems remote
- 9. A person who helps another commit a crime
- 11. An underlying cause of an accident
- 13. 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
- 14. The combination of Actus reus and mens rea
Down
- 1. A legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
- 3. The “facts surrounding an event” and include such things as time and place.
- 5. a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime
- 6. a relationship between the mens rea, act, and resulting harm
- 7. The inability to be tried a second time for the same offense
- 8. used to determine factual causality
- 10. the defendant is held criminally responsible for the harm because the harm is a foreseeable crime
- 12. Atatutes that declare an act criminal after the act occurs and those that increase the penalty for a crime after the act occurs.