Crime Flashcards
Abettor
Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime
Accessory
Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or during the crime taking place
Or who acts in concert by watching while the crime is being committed
Assault
A crime at common law
and is every attack directed
to take effect physically on someone else weather actually injury is inflicted or not
Attempt to pervert the course of justice
A crime at common law
Which can be described as an any overt or intentional action calculated
To interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime
Or bringing an offender to justice
Breach of the peace
A crime at common law
And can be committed by one or more person conducting themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner
Where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance in the community
Contempt of court
Any intentional disrespect or action against the courts authority
Culpable and reckless fire raising
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused
Culpable homicide
Crime at common law
And is committed by a person who unlawfully kills another person, where death is caused by improper conduct
But the guilt is less than murder
Forgery and uttering
Crime at common law
Consists of in the making and publishing of writing
feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person
Fraud
Fraud
Wilful imposition
Falsehood
Hate crime
Any crime which is perceived
by the victim or any other person as
being motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group
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 doesn’t matter if the death took place before complete delivery
House
Includes any dwelling house or other roofed buildings, finished or unfinished
Or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling which is secured against intrusion by an unauthorised person
Lock-fast place
Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers and desk
and any other receptacle where the contents are secured by lock and key
Malicious mischief
Crime at common law
Constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another
Murder
A crime at common law
And is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause
And where there is either the intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences
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 themselves or someone else
Perjury
Crime at common law
Committed when a person wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath
Principal
Is he person who actually commits the crime
Reset
Crime at common law
Committed by any person with the intent to deprive the owner
To receive and keep property, knowing that it had been appropriated
By theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud
Robbery
Crime at common law
Committed by a person who feloniously appropriates property by means or threats of violence
Subornation of perjury
Crime at common law
Committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means
a person to give a false testimony in judicial proceedings
Theft
Crime at common law
Is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner
Or other lawful authority
Vandalism (section 52 of the criminal law (consolidation)(scotland) act 1995)
Is an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly
destroys or damages the property of another without reasonable cause
