Crime Flashcards
Define 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.
Define abettor
When a person instigates, incites, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.
Define 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.
Define 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.
Define 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.
Define contempt of court
An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.
Define culpable and reckless fireraising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Define 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.
Define forgery and uttering
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.
Define fraud
- falsehood
- fraud
- wilful imposition
Define hate crime
A crime motivates by malice or ill-will towards a social group.
Define 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.
Define house
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.
Define 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.
Define malicious mischief
A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.
Define 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 a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences.
Define 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.
Define perjury
A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.
Define principal
Is the person who actually commits the crime.
Define reset
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.
Define robbery
A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
Define 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.
Define 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.
Define 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.
