Crime

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Accessory

Answer 2

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 3

Assault

Answer 3

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 4

Attempt to pervert the course of justice

Answer 4

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 5

Breach of the peace

Answer 5

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 6

Contempt of court

Answer 6

An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.

Question 7

Culpable & reckless fireraising

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Culpable homicide

Answer 8

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 9

Forgery & Uttering

Answer 9

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 10

Fraud

Answer 10

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful Imposition

Question 11

Hate Crime

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Homicide

Answer 12

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 13

House

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Lockfast place

Answer 14

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 15

Malicious Mischief

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Murder

Answer 16

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 a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences.

Question 17

Offensive Weapon

Answer 17

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 18

Perjury

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Principal

Answer 19

is the person who actually commits the crime.

Question 20

Reset

Answer 20

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 21

Robbery

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Subornation of perjury

Answer 22

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 23

Theft

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation)(Scotland) Act 1993)

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Wasting police time

Answer 25

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 26

Wilful Fireraising

Answer 26

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