Procedural - correct answer ✔✔The processes followed by police, prosecutors, and judge as well as the
rights possessed by suspects and defendants are defined by___________ criminal law.
Actus rues - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following indicates that for a crime to occur there must be
an act of commission or omission by the accused?
Administrative regulations - correct answer ✔✔Laws and rule made by federal, state, and local agencies
are called
An Inchoate Offense - correct answer ✔✔An act can be deemed criminal if it could eventually lead to
harm that the law seeks to prevent. This is called
Actus Reus - correct answer ✔✔For an act to be a crime, the intent and the act just exist simultaneously.
This is called
Men Rea - correct answer ✔✔If a person has a guilty mind or a blameworthy state of mind , this
describes the element of
Substantive - correct answer ✔✔The definition of crimes and people eligible for punishment are spelled
out in ___________ criminal law.
Attendant circumstances, mens Rea, and acts reus - correct answer ✔✔The elements of a crime consist
of
Malice Aforethought - correct answer ✔✔The phrase that distinguished murder from non-negligent
manslaughter is
, Force - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is a neccessary elements in the definition of rape?
Strict Liability - correct answer ✔✔A major exception to the mens Rea principle is called
Police officer entices a citizen to commit a crime that he or she was not predisposed to commit. - correct
answer ✔✔Entrapment occurs when a
Necessity - correct answer ✔✔When people break the law in order to save themselves or prevent a
greater harm, they will likely use the defense of _____ in court.
The insanity defense is rarely used by criminals. - correct answer ✔✔Which following is true about the
insanity defense?
Durham Rule - correct answer ✔✔The idea that insanity may in each case involve a different
combination of many factors at the time the crime is committed is called the
Right- from- Wrong - correct answer ✔✔The test used by most states to determine instant today is
called the ___ test.
Fourth - correct answer ✔✔Which amendment protects privacy by barring unreasonable searches by
police?
Sixth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔The right to fair trail is found in the
Warren - correct answer ✔✔Which chief justice for the U.S Supreme Court led a legal revolution that
expanded the constitutional right of criminal defendants?
Powell v. Alabama - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following landmark U.S Supreme Court cases
required courts to provide attorneys for poor defendants facing the death penalty?
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