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, investigates, 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 whether or not actual 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 or the bringing of an offender to justice.

Question 4

Breach of the Peace

Answer 4

A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himselves 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 5

Contempt of Court

Answer 5

An international disrespect or an action against the courts authority

Question 6

Culpable and Reckless Fireraising.

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

Flasehood
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 an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

Question 12

House

Answer 12

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 13

Lockfast place

Answer 13

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