Crime

Question 0

Define 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

Define abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Define 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

Define 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

Define 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

Define contempt of court

Answer 5

An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.

Question 6

Define culpable and reckless fireraising

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Define 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

Define forgery and uttering

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Define fraud

Answer 9

• falsehood
• fraud
• wilful imposition

Question 10

Define hate crime

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Define 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

Define house

Answer 12

Includes any dwelling house or another 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

Define 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

Define 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

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

Question 16

Define 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

Define 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

Define principal

Answer 18

Is the person who actually commits the crime.

Question 19

Define 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 has been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud.

Question 20

Define 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

Define 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

Define 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

Define 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

Define 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

Define wilful fireraising

Answer 25

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