Crime Definitions

Question 1

Assault

Answer 1

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 2

Attempt to pervert the course of justice

Answer 2

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 3

Breach of the Peace

Answer 3

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 4

Culpable and Reckless Fireraising

Answer 4

Is committed when property is set on

fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.

Question 5

Culpable Homicide

Answer 5

Is 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 6

Hate Crime

Answer 6

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 7

Homicide

Answer 7

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 8

House

Answer 8

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 9

Lockfast Place

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Malicious Mischief

Answer 10

A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton,

and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another

Question 11

Murder

Answer 11

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 12

Offensive Weapon

Answer 12

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 13

Perjury

Answer 13

A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully

makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath

Question 14

Reset

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Robbery

Answer 15

A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously
appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence.

Question 16

Subornation of Perjury

Answer 16

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 17

Theft

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Vandalism (S52 Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995)

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Wasting Police Time

Answer 19

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 20

Wilful Fireraising

Answer 20

Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any

form of property.