Offences Flashcards
What is an example of level 1 assault?
Pushing someone or threatening a person with violence.
This is a hybrid offense.
What are the types of offenses against the person?
Assault and sexual assault
What is Level II Assault?
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm.
This is a hybrid offense
What is level III Assault?
Aggravated assault.
I.e. Wounding, maiming, or endangering life of victim.
This is an indictable offense.
What is level I sexual assault?
Victim suffers the least physical injury.
This is a hybrid offense.
What is level II sexual assault?
Sexual assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm.
This is an indictable offense.
What is level III Sexual Assault?
Aggravated sexual assault.
I.e. Wounding, maiming, or endangering the life of the victim.
This is an indictable offense.
What are offenses against the property?
Theft, robbery and breaking and entering.
What is theft?
Theft is the most commonly reported offense in Canada. It is taking property permanently or temporarily without the owner’s permission.
I.e. Car theft in Canada costs the insurance industry over $600 million each year. With additional costs (police etc), theft costs the Canadian economy over $1 billion.
What are the types of theft?
Hybrid: theft under $5000
Indictable: theft over $5000
What is colour of right?
The honest belief that a person owns an item of has permission to use it.
What is robbery?
Robbery is theft involving violence or the threat of violence. According to Statistics Canada in 1997 52% of robberies involved the use of a weapon.
What is breaking and entering?
It not only involved breaking into. Place but also having the intent to commit an indictable offense.
What are the punishments for breaking and entering?
Commercial building: max punishment is 10 years.
Home: max punishment is life in prison
What is mischief?
Willfully destroying property or data, rendering it useless, interfering with the lawful use of property or date. Both types of mischief are hybrid offenses. Maximum punishment can be life in prison. Actual harm does not have to have taken place for someone to be found guilty.
