Chapter 6 The Nature of Crime

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  1. 5. A deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences.
  2. 9. Consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take.
  3. 12. The crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence
  4. 14. Someone who knowingly receives, comforts, or assists a perpetrator in escaping from the police.
  5. 15. The shared responsibility among criminals for any additional offences that are committed in the course of the crime they originally attended to commit.
  6. 17. Wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death.
  7. 18. Legal responsibility for a wrongful action
  8. 20. Laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level; most often punishable by fines
  9. 22. Federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare.
  10. 25. A deliberate closing of one’s mind to the possible consequences of one’s actions
  11. 26. A criminal act must be completed in order for a crime to exist. The two major types of incomplete crime: criminal attempt and conspiracy.
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  1. 1. A crime that involves advising, recommending, or persuading another person to commit a crime.
  2. 2. An awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
  3. 3. The intention to commit a crime, even when the crime is not completed.
  4. 4. The defence that the accused took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular offence
  5. 6. The person who actually commits the crime
  6. 7. A criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime
  7. 8. The reason a person commits a crime
  8. 10. the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another
  9. 11. An act or omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute
  10. 13. Offences that do not require mens rea but to which the accused can offer the defence of due diligence.
  11. 16. Law that identifies crimes and prescribes punishments
  12. 19. Thee desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose
  13. 21. A state of mind in which someone desires to carry out a wrongful action, knows what the results will be, and is reckless regarding the consequences.
  14. 23. An agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur.
  15. 24. “the guilty act” - the voluntary action, omission, or state of being that is forbidden by the Criminal Code