Crime

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Accesory

Answer 2

Anyone who aids or assists 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 any 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 and 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 community

Question 6

Contempt of court

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Culpable and 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 is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another, where death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder

Question 9

Forgery and uttering

Answer 9

A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass as the genuine writing of another person

Question 10

Fraud

Answer 10

• Falsehood
• Fraud
• Wilful Imposition

Question 11

Hate crime

Answer 11

Any crime motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group

Question 12

Homicide

Answer 12

Where 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, whether finished or unfinished, or any part of a building used as a seperate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons

Question 14

Lockast place

Answer 14

Includes any rooms, cupboards, desks, drawers, safes, cashboxes, showcases 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 and is constituted by the 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 commited by any person who kills another with necessary cause and where there is either 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 a person or is intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or another person

Question 18

Perjury

Answer 18

A crime at common law and is committed by an person who intentionally makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivelant to oath

Question 19

Principal

Answer 19

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 and is committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property by the use 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 another, by any means, to give false testimony in judicial preceedings

Question 23

Theft

Answer 23

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 24

Vandalism

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Wasting police time

Answer 25

A crime at common law and is committed by an person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police with the intention and affect of causing unneccesary police investigation

Question 26

Wilful fireraising

Answer 26

Is committed by any person who intentionally sets fire to the property of another