Definitions

Question 1

Define crime

Answer 1

A wrong against society

Question 2

What is crime?

Answer 2

A wrong against society

Question 3

What is victimless crime?

Answer 3

Victimless crime are acts which are illegal, but do not directly harm other people or property. Some examples of victimless crime include; use of drugs and jaywalking.

Question 4

Define omission

Answer 4

Failures to act

Question 5

Define crime (3 points)

Answer 5

Society thinks it’s wrong; it interferes with the rights of another person, or society could not function properly unless it was considered wrong and people were punished

Question 6

Define element

Answer 6

An essential requirement to a cause of action (the right to bring a lawsuit to enforce a particular right). Each cause of action (negligence, breach of contract, trespass, assault, etc.) is made up of a basic set of elements which must be alleged and proved. Each charge of a criminal offense requires allegation and proof of its elements.

Question 7

What is the point of criminal law?

Answer 7

Criminal law is the ‘rules’ which allows people to feel safe

Question 8

What are the three (3) body of rules to be a crime?

Answer 8

1. Society must think it is wrong
2. Interfere with the rights of another person
3. Society could not function properly unless it was considered wrong and people who did it were punished
4. Needs to be a punishment or a consequence

Question 9

What is Homicide

Answer 9

Is the unlawful killing of another
It is the most serious offence against another person which includes murder or manslaughter.
The crime will be either murder or manslaughter depending on the circumstances of killing

Question 10

What are the 3 general types of offences?

Answer 10

1. Offences against the person
2. Property offences
3. Offences against public interest

Question 11

Define Grievous Bodily Harm

Answer 11

An act which amounts to serious injury.

Question 12

What are the elements of murder?

Answer 12

1. Killed
2. Another Person
3. Unlawfully

Question 13

What is stalking?

Answer 13

Repeated conduct such as following, watching, sending messages or visitation that gives rise to the victim fearing for their personal safety

Question 14

What are the elements of Battery (Type 1)

Answer 14

1. The actual application of force by striking, touching, moving, or applying force of any kind to
   
   2. The person of another
   3. Directly or indirectly
   4. Without consent (or if the consent is obtained by fraud)

Question 15

What is the maximum penalty for Acts intended to cause GBH (s317QCC)

Answer 15

Life (20 years)

Question 16

What does unlawfully mean?

Answer 16

It means that there was no lawful excuse, defence or justification for the act.

Question 17

What is the penalty for incest?

Answer 17

The penalty is life imprisonment

Question 18

What is the difference between murder and manslaughter?

Answer 18

Murder is the intent to kill.

Manslaughter is when death occurred because of actions, but there was no intent by offender to ‘kill’

Question 19

GANTT

Answer 19

A Gantt chart is a visual representation of a project schedule. A type of bar chart, a Gantt chart shows the start and finish dates of the different required elements of a project