Crime 1 Flashcards
Accessory
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed
Abettor
Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime
Assault
A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another whether or not actual injury is inflicted
Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice
A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice
Breach of the Peace
A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous and disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community
Contempt of Court
An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority
Culpable and Reckless Fireraising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused
Culpable Homicide
Is a crime at common law and is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, were death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less that murder
Forgery and Uttering
A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person
Fraud
Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful Imposition
Hate Crime
A crime motivated by malice or ill-will towards a social group
Homicide
When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self existent, not an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breath, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery
