Criminal Law

1. The body of crime
7. Statuses that declare and act criminal after the act occurs and those that increase the penalty for a crime after the act occurs
9. The need for some identifiable harm as an actual or potential consequence of culpable activity is often sighted as a general feature of crime.
13. also referred to as the but four rule.
14. The need for a BLANK is also part of the principle of legality.

2. holds that behavior cannot be criminal if no law exists that both defines it as illegal and prescribes a punishment for it
3. To establish the corpus delicti of a crime, the state has to demonstrate that a BLANK has been violated and that someone violated it.
4. Individuals may not be tried for a second time for the same offense or be punished a second time for the same offense.
5. The prohibition of being tried twice is limited to BLANK
6. Requires some direct relation between the injury asserted and the injurious conduct alleged.
8. otherwise known as victimless crimes
10. What amendment prohibits double jeopardy
11. A legislative act punishing a person or a select group of people without the benefit of a judicial trial
12. Refers to a statue 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
15. A relationship between mens reus and actus reus