Chapter 7 Flashcards
the kidnapping or illegal taking of a person, often a child
Abduction
assault wherein bodily harm occurs, including the wounding, maiming, and/or disfiguring of the victim; the most severe form of assault
Aggravated Assault
assault involving sexual activity; and the wounding, maiming, and/or disfiguring of the victim; the most sever form of sexual assault
Aggravated Sexual Assault
intentionally or recklessly causing damage by fire or explosion to property
Arson
the benefit to society that a creation has
Artistic Merit
1 - a tort causing the victim to reasonably fear that bodily harm may occur;
2- The threat of actual physical contact without consent
Assault
assault involving a weapon or threat of a weapon or an imitation, or assault in which the victim’s health or comfort is threatened; the second form of assault
Assault Causing Bodily Harm
to enter another’s premises without permission by breaking or opening anything that is closed
Break and Enter
the fact of being the cause of something that happened; an important principle in law of negligence
Causation
anything that serves to indicate a person has true ownership of something
Color of Right
what the community would accept others being exposed to on the basis of the degree of harm that may flow from such exposure
Community Tolerance
the assaulted person who filed a complainant
Complainant
wanton or reckless disregard for the lives and safety of other persons; may involve the operation of a motor vehicle, or may cause bodily harm or death
Criminal Negligence
blamable or criminal homicide, such as murder, manslaughter, infanticide
Culpable Homicide
proceeds of crime involving illegal stock exchange transactions and drug trade offences
Enterprise Crime
wrongfully soliciting, procuring, attracting, or alluring
Enticing
the act of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable and disabling diseases as an act of mercy
Euthanasia
Representation of a matter of fact that is known by the person making it to be false and make with a fraudulent intent to induce the person to whom it is made to act on it
False Pretences
planned and deliberate murder, or the murder of a law enforcement official, or murder resulting from the commission of various crimes particularly offensive to society
First Degree Murder
causing the death of another human being
Homicide
sexual intercourse between a man and woman related to each other by degrees of affinity and consequently that prohibits marriage
incest
the killing of an infant, shortly after birth, by its mother as a result of the effects of giving birth or of post partum depression, causing a disturbed mind
infanticide
homicide that is committed in the heat of passion by sudden provocation, unlike murder, that is planned and deliberate
manslaughter
destruction or damage of property; interference with the lawful use of enjoyment of property
mischief