POL: Chapter 4

4. The extent of the power to make legal decisions and judgment
8. Law: Body of rules and regulations
9. Holds someone legally responsible for acts committed before the law
13. is considered an inchoate offense (incomplete crimes, are acts taken toward committing a crime or acts that constitute indirect participation in a crime.)
15. when you cause damages to a person, property, or reputation
16. Rule: Knowing right from wrong except if disabled people/schizophrenic
17. change or addition to a law
18. Legal principle that ensures Judicial decisions are considered.
21. Ackowledgment by the court of the innocence of defendent a person is not

1. crime and been sentenced to a six-month period of incarceration
2. Action of showing something to be right or reasonable.(legal defense in which the defendant admits to committing the act)
3. delicti a criminal law was violated and that someone violated it.
5. the act of using force, false imprisonment, coercion, threats, or psychological pressure to compel someone to act contrary to their wishes or interests.
6. Reus: The thought of committing a crime (a guilty mind)
7. The criminal act and the mental state occur together in order for a crime to take place.
10. To stand by decisions
11. : the assumption that acts injure not just individuals, but society too.
12. The accused or guilty party
14. Reus: the criminal act or physically committing a crime
19. : the belief that an orderly society is established to maintain order.
20. the attorney FOR VICTIM cha rging