Crime Definitions

Question 1

What is the definition of Abettor?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is the definition of Accessory?

Answer 2

Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance either before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.

Question 3

What is the definition of Assault?

Answer 3

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 4

What is the definition of Attempt to Pervert the Course of Justice?

Answer 4

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 5

What is the definition of a breach of the peace?

Answer 5

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 6

What is the definition of Contempt of Court

Answer 6

An intentional disrespect or action against the court’s authority.

Question 7

What is the definition of Culpable and Reckless Fireraising

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is the definition of Culpable Homicide

Answer 8

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 9

What is the definition of Forgery and Uttering

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What is the definition of Fraud

Answer 10

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful Imposition

Question 11

What is the definition of Hate Crime?

Answer 11

A crime motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group

Question 12

What is the definition of 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 is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

Question 13

What is the definition of House?

Answer 13

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 14

What is the definition of Lockfast Place?

Answer 14

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 15

What is the definition of Malicious Mischief?

Answer 15

A crime at Common Law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.

Question 16

What is the definition of Murder?

Answer 16

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 17

What is the definition of 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 either themselves or by some other person

Question 18

What is the definition of Perjury?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What is the definition of Principal?

Answer 19

Is the person who actually commits the crime.

Question 20

What is the definition of Reset?

Answer 20

A crime at common law committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner, to receive and keep property, knowing it had been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud.

Question 21

What is the definition of 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

What is the definition of Subornation of Perjury?

Answer 22

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 23

What is the definition of Theft?

Answer 23

A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without the consent of the rightful owner.

Question 24

What is the definition of Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995)?

Answer 24

Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse.