Chapter 3

Question 1

Civil Law

Answer 1

Laws regulating the relationship between or among individuals usually involving property, contracts or business disputes.

Question 2

substantive criminal law

Answer 2

Law that defines acts that are subject to punishment and specifies the punishment for such offenses

Question 3

procedural criminal law

Answer 3

Law defining the procedures that crimminal justice officials must follow in enforcement, adjudication, and corrections

Question 4

legal responsibility

Answer 4

the accountability of an individual for a crime because pf the perpetrators characteristics and the circumstances of the illegal acts.

Question 5

ex post facto

Answer 5

laws written and applied after the fact

Question 6

actus reus

Answer 6

people cannot be convicted of a crime simply because of their status

Question 7

causation

Answer 7

must be a casual relationship between the suspect and the harm suffered.

Question 8

incohate offense

Answer 8

conduct that is criminal even though the harm that the law seeks to prevent has not been done but only planned or attempted

Question 9

mens rea

Answer 9

“guilty mind” or blameworthy state of mind necessary for legal responsibility for a criminal offense, criminal intent, as distinguished from innocent intent

Question 10

enrtapment

Answer 10

the defense that the suspect was induced by the police to commit the illegal act