Across
- 3. Laws that make an action illegal, then punish people for doing the thing the law prohibits beforehand.
- 7. The relationship between mens rea, the act, and the resulting harm
- 8. Behavior can't be criminal if a law doesn't exist against it.
- 10. Under double jeopardy, legislative decisions to ______ can't be applied retroactively.
- 11. This kind of punishment is needed in order to declare an act criminal.
- 12. A legislative act punishing a person or group of people without a trial by jury.
- 14. This is the combination of both actus reus and mens rea.
- 15. Also referred to as the "but for" rule, this determines the factual casualty of a crime.
Down
- 1. This says that individuals cannot be tried or punished twice for the same offence.
- 2. A criminal law violation in which parties of the crime are willful participants and the harm seems remote
- 4. Literally translates to "body of a crime"
- 5. Identifiable harm as a consequence for criminal activity
- 6. Said that the laws giving by the constitution applied to all of the states.
- 9. A very unclear statute that defines a crime in a way that someone of average intelligence couldn't decipher it.
- 13. There are this many additional principles needed to describe the legal concept of a crime apart from mens rea, actus reus, and concurrence.