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 whither or not injury is inflicted

Question 3

Contempt of court

Answer 3

An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority

Question 4

Culpable and reckless fireraising

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Fraud

Answer 5

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful imposition

Question 6

Hate crime

Answer 6

A crime motivated by malice or I’ll-will towards a social group

Question 7

Principle

Answer 7

Is the person who actually commits a crime

Question 8

Theft

Answer 8

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 9

Attempt to prevert the course of justice

Answer 9

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 10

Breach of the peace

Answer 10

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 11

Culpable homicide

Answer 11

It 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 12

Forgery and uttering

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Homicide

Answer 13

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,nit is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery

Question 14

House

Answer 14

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 15

Lock fast place

Answer 15

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 16

Malicious mischief

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Murder

Answer 17

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 18

Offensive weapon

Answer 18

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 19

Perjury

Answer 19

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

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 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 induced by and means,am person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings

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

It 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 fire raising

Answer 25

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