VOCAB Flashcards
Quasi-criminal law:
laws covering less serious offences at the provincial or municipal level; most often punishable by fines.
Actus reus:
“the guilty act”–the voluntary action,ommison,or state being that it is forbidden by the criminal code.
Mens reus:
a deliberate intention to commit a wrongful act, with reckless disregard for the consequences.
Specific intent:
the desire to commit one wrongful for the sake of accomplishing another.
Motive:
the reason a person commits a crime.
General intent:
the desire to commit a wrongful act, with no motive or purpose.
Perpetrator:
the person who actually commits the crime.
Aiding:
a criminal offence that involves helping a perpetrator commit a crime.
Abetting:
the crime of encouraging the perpetrator to commit an offence.
Counselling:
a crime that involves advising,recomending,or persuading another person to commit a criminal offence.
Summary offence:
a crime that is considered less serious and carries a lighter penalty.
Hybrid:
any offence that the crown can try either as a summary or indictable offence.
Homicide:
the killing of another human being, either directly or non directly.
Possession:
the state of having knowledge of and control over something.
Trafficking:
a criminal offence that involves selling, giving,transporting, or distributing a controlled substance or an authorization for a controlled substance.
Disorderly house:
a common bawdy, betting, or gaming house.
Theft:
taking property permanently or temporarily without the owners permission.
Robbery:
the theft of personal property through violence or the threat of violence.
Breaking and entering:
breaking or opening something in order to enter the premises without permission with the intent to commit an indictable offence.
Indictable offence:
a more serious crime that carries a heavier penalty.
Culpable homicide:
a killing for which the accused can be held legally responsible.
Wilful blindness:
when a person seeks t avoid civil or criminal liability for the wrongful act by intentionally keeping himself or herself unaware of facts that would render him/her liable for implicated.
Conspiracy
An agreement between two or more people to carry or an illegal act, even if that act does not actually occur
Wilful blindness actual
The deliberate closing of ones mind to the possible consequences of ones actions
