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- 2. offence a crime that is considered less serious and carries a lighter penalty. (Generally fined up to $2000 and/or imprisoned for up to six months)
- 4. After the Fact someone who knowingly receives, comforts, or assists a perpetrator in escaping from the police
- 5. blindness a deliberate closing of one’s mind to the possible consequences of one’s actions
- 6. consciously taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take
- 8. Reus “the guilty act” the voluntary action, omission, or state of being that is forbidden by the Criminal Code
- 10. liability offence offences that do not require mens rea and to which the accused can offer no defence.
- 12. a crime that involves advising, recommending, or persuading another person to commit a criminal offence
- 13. legal responsibility for a wrongful action
- 14. an agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur
- 16. 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
- 17. offence a crime that is considered less serious and carries a lighter penalty. (Generally fined up to $2000 and/or imprisoned for up to six months)
- 20. a criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime
- 21. the reason a person commits a crime
- 22. liability offences offenses that do not require mens rea but to which the accused can offer the defence of due diligence (the defence that the accused person took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular crime)
- 24. Intent the desire to commit a wrongful act, with no ulterior motive or purpose
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- 1. negligence wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of others, sometimes causing serious injury or death
- 3. the person who actually commits the crime
- 6. laws federal or provincial statutes meant to protect the public welfare
- 7. the intention to commit a crime, even when the crime is not committed.
- 9. an agreement between two or more people to carry out an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur.
- 11. an awareness of certain facts that can be used to establish mens rea
- 15. Intent the desire to commit one wrongful act for the sake of accomplishing another
- 18. diligence The defence the accused took every reasonable precaution to avoid committing a particular offence
- 19. the crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence
- 21. Rea “the guilty mind” demonstrates that the act was intentional, knowing, negligent, reckless, or wilfully blind or a deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences
- 23. criminal laws Laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level, most often punishable by fines