CRIMINAL LAW

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Across
  1. 2. the share of responsibility among criminals for the additional crimes committed over the course of the crime they originally intended to commit
  2. 6. a deliberate closing of one’s mind to the possible consequences of one’s actions
  3. 7. wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death
  4. 10. the person who actually commits the crime
  5. 13. someone who knowingly receives, comforts, or assists a perpetrator in escaping from the police
  6. 16. an awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
  7. 18. offences that do not require mens rea but to which the accused can offer the defence due diligence
  8. 22. defence used to prove that the accused took every reasonable precaution to prevent committing a particular crime
  9. 23. the body of laws that prohibit and punish acts that injure people, property, and society as a whole
  10. 24. the intention to commit a crime even though it may not be carried out
  11. 25. the state of mind in which someone desires to carry out a wrongful action, knows what the results will be, and is recklessly regarding the consequences
  12. 26. the crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit crime
Down
  1. 1. legal responsibility for wrongful action
  2. 3. offences that do not require mens rea to which the accused can offer no defence
  3. 4. an act or omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute
  4. 5. Rea the guilty mind = deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences
  5. 8. the guilty act = the voluntary action, omission, or state of being that is forbidden by the Code
  6. 9. the reason a person commits a crime
  7. 11. the desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose
  8. 12. consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take
  9. 14. a criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime
  10. 15. an agreement between 2 or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur
  11. 17. laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level; most punishable by fines
  12. 19. federal/provincial statutes meant to protect public welfare
  13. 20. a crime that involves advising, recommending, or persuading someone into committing an offence
  14. 21. the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another