Chapter 3 Review

Question 1

Crime:

Answer 1

An Act or Omission that the Law makes punishable generally by a fine penalty forfeiture or confinement.

Question 2

TORT:

Answer 2

A wrongful act that results in injury and leaves the injured party entitled to compensation.

Question 3

FELONIES:

Answer 3

• Serious crime
• Punishable by more than a year and imprisonment or death
• Sentence usually serves in prison

Examples:
homicide rape robbery possession or distribution of illegal narcotics, arson

Question 4

MISTAMINORS:

Answer 4

• Less serious than felonies
• Punishable by fines, penalties, or incarceration last than one year
• Sentence is usually served in local or County jails or alternative program

Example:
shoplifting, disorderly conduct

Question 5

PETTY OFFENSES:

Answer 5

• Insignificant crimes involving minor misconduct
• Punishable by fines and community service

Examples:
traffic violations and other infractions

Question 6

Omissions:

Answer 6

Are illegally viewed as actions that can lead to criminal liability, usually in one of two situations

Examples:
Including failure to register for the draft or failure to file an income tax return or child neglect

Question 7

Possessory offenses:

Answer 7

which criminalize the possession of certain items or substances.

Question 8

Motive:

Answer 8

The emotion that prompts a person to act. It is not an element of a crime that is required to provide criminal liability, but it is often shown in order to identify the perpetrator of a crime or explain his or hers reason for acting.

Question 9

Specific intent:

Answer 9

The intention to commit an act for the purpose of doing something additional future act, to achieve some future consequences, or with the awareness of a situation attendant circumstances.

Question 10

General intent:

Answer 10

The intent only to do the Actus Reus of the crime, without any of the elements of specific Intent.

Question 11

Transferred intent:

Answer 11

A doctrine that holds a person criminally liable even when the consequences of his or her actions is not what the act attended.

Question 12

Strict liability:

Answer 12

When a person can be convicted of a crime without having any requisites mental state our intentions to commit the crime.

Question 13

Purposely with respect to results of conduct:

Answer 13

When the actor has a voluntary wish to act in a certain way or produce a certain result.

Question 14

Purposely with respect to attendant circumstances:

Answer 14

When the actor is aware of conditions that will make the intended crime possible or believes or hopes that they exist.

Question 15

Knowingly caused a result:

Answer 15

Commits an act in the awareness that one’s conduct will almost certainly cause this result.

Question 16

Knowingly with respect to conduct an attendant circumstance:

Answer 16

Aware that one’s actions are criminal, or that attendant circumstances make an otherwise legal act a criminal one.

Question 17

Recklessly:

Answer 17

Acting in a manner that voluntarily ignores a substantial and unjustified risk that a certain circumstance exists or will result from one’s actions.

Question 18

Negligently:

Answer 18

Acting in a manner that ignores a substantial an unjustified the risk of which one should have been aware.

Question 19

Cause-in-effect:

Answer 19

The cause of the social harm in a criminal act, as determined by the But-for test

Question 20

But-for test:

Answer 20

The test that asks whether the results would have a curd if the defendant had not acted.

Question 21

Proximate cause:

Answer 21

that causes, from among all of the causes and effect that may exist that is the legal cause of the social harm.

Question 22

Interviewing cause:

Answer 22

A cause, other than the defendants conduct that contributes to the social harm.

Question 23

consequences of elements:

Answer 23

requirement for criminal liability that accused performed a voluntary act accompanied by the required mental state that actually and proximately caused the prohibited social harm.