Crime

Question 1

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Accessory

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Assault

Answer 3

A crime at common law

and is every attack directed

to take effect physically on someone else weather actually injury is inflicted or not

Question 4

Attempt to pervert the course of justice

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Breach of the peace

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Contempt of court

Answer 6

Any intentional disrespect or action against the courts authority

Question 7

Culpable and reckless fire raising

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

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

Question 9

Forgery and uttering

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Fraud

Answer 10

Fraud
Wilful imposition
Falsehood

Question 11

Hate crime

Answer 11

Any crime which is perceived

by the victim or any other person as

being motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group

Question 12

Homicide

Answer 12

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

Question 13

House

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Lock-fast place

Answer 14

Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers and desk

and any other receptacle where the contents are secured by lock and key

Question 15

Malicious mischief

Answer 15

Crime at common law

Constituted by 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 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

Question 17

Offensive weapon

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Perjury

Answer 18

Crime at common law

Committed when a person wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath

Question 19

Principal

Answer 19

Is he person who actually commits the crime

Question 20

Reset

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Robbery

Answer 21

Crime at common law

Committed by a person who feloniously appropriates property by means or threats of violence

Question 22

Subornation of perjury

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Theft

Answer 23

Crime at common law

Is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner

Or other lawful authority

Question 24

Vandalism (section 52 of the criminal law (consolidation)(scotland) act 1995)

Answer 24

Is an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly

destroys or damages the property of another without reasonable cause

Question 25

Wasting police time

Answer 25

Crime at common law

Committed by any person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police

With the intention and effect of causing false investigation

Question 26

Wilful fire raising

Answer 26

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