Crime Definitions

Question 0

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

Abettor

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another wether or not actually injury is inflicted

Question 3

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 scene or the bringing of an offender to justice

Question 4

Breach of the peace

Answer 4

A crime in common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselfs in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to the ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.

Question 5

Contempt of court

Answer 5

An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.

Question 6

Culpable and reckless fire raising

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Culpable homicide

Answer 7

Is a crime at common law and 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

Forgery and uttering

Answer 8

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 9

Fraud

Answer 9

Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful imposition

Question 10

Hate crime

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Homicide

Answer 11

When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self-existent, not and unborn child. But if the child has begun to breath,it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

Question 12

House

Answer 12

Includes any dwelling or 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 13

Lockfast place

Answer 13

Includes rooms,cupboards,drawers,safes,desks,cash-boxes,show-cases and any other receptacle the contents are protected by lock and key

Question 14

Malicious mischief

Answer 14

A crime at common law constituted by wilful,wanton and malicious destruction of, or damage to property of another.

Question 15

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

Offensive weapon

Answer 16

Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to a the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or by some other person.

Question 17

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

Principal

Answer 18

Is the person who actually commits the crime.

Question 19

Reset

Answer 19

A 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 20

Subornation of perjury

Answer 20

A crime at common law committed by any person who counsels or induces by any mean, a person to give false testimony in judicial proceedings.

Question 21

Theft

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Vandalism (section 52 criminal law(consolidation)(Scotland) act 1995)

Answer 22

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

Question 46

Waiting police time

Answer 46

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 47

Wilful fire raising

Answer 47

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

Question 48

Robbery

Answer 48

Is a crime at common law and is committed by any person who appropriates property through threats and means of violence.