Crime

Question 0

Accessory

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Attempt to pervert the course of justice

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Breach of the peace

Answer 4

A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community

Question 5

Contempt of court

Answer 5

An intentional disrespect or an action against the court’s authority

Question 6

Culpable and reckless fire raising

Answer 6

Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused

Question 7

Culpable homicide

Answer 7

Is a crime at common law and it is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, where death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder

Question 8

Forgery and uttering

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Fraud

Answer 9

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful imposition

Question 10

Hate crime

Answer 10

A crime motivated by malice or ill-will towards a social group

Question 11

Homicide

Answer 11

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 breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery

Question 12

House

Answer 12

Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of a bUilding used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons

Question 13

Lockfast place

Answer 13

Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key

Question 14

Malicious mischief

Answer 14

A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another

Question 15

Murder

Answer 15

A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences

Question 16

Offensive weapon

Answer 16

Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or by some other person

Question 17

Perjury

Answer 17

A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath

Question 18

Principal

Answer 18

Is the person who actually commits the crime

Question 19

Reset

Answer 19

A crime at common law committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner, to receive and keep property, knowing that it had been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud

Question 20

Robbery

Answer 20

A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence

Question 21

Subornation of perjury

Answer 21

A crime at common law committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means, a person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings

Question 22

Theft

Answer 22

A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority

Question 23

Vandalism (S52 criminal law (consolidation)(Scotland) act 1995)

Answer 23

Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse

Question 24

Wasting police time

Answer 24

Is a crime at common law committed by any person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police with the intention and effect of causing unnecessary police investigation

Question 25

Wilful fireraising

Answer 25

Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property