Crime 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 or 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 court’s authority
Culpable and reckless fire raising
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 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
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 breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery
House
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
Lockfast place
Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show-cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key
Malicious mischief
A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another
Murder
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
Offensive weapon
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
Perjury
A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath
Principal
Is the person who actually commits the crime
Reset
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
Robbery
A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence
Subornation of perjury
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
Theft
A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority
Vandalism (S52 criminal law (consolidation)(Scotland) act 1995)
Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse
Wasting police time
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
Wilful fireraising
Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property
