Law 12 Chap 6 Vocab Cue Cards

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Abetting

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Encouraging or assisting to commit a criminal offense.

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Absolute Liability Offences

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An offence where a person could be considered guilty even if there was no intention of committing a crime.

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Accessory After the Fact

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A person who gives assistance to the perpetrator of a crime,while not directly having committed the crime themselves. In many cases, this involves the individual not being even being present at the scene of the crime themselves.

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Actus Reus

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Any action or conduct that is a component element of a crime, in opposition to the mental state of the accused.

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Aiding

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The criminal offence in which involves a person helping a perpetrator commit a crime. Usually is coupled with abetting, but not at all times.

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Attempt

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An offence when an accused makes a substantial, but unsuccessful effort to commit a crime. Different from conspiracy as for Attempt to have occurred, there must have been an intent to commit a crime, beyond mere preparation, and an overt act with the apparent ability to commit the crime.

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Conspiracy

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The act of an agreement between two or more individuals to commit a crime at some time in the future, even if that act does not eventually occur.

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Counselling

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The crime of reccomending, persuading, or privately advocating, or advising another person to commit a criminal offence.

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Crime

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An act or the omission of an act that is prohibited and punishable by federal statute.

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Criminal Law

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A category of the public justice system that deals with prohibited and punishable behaviour which has the capacity to injure people, property, or society as a whole.

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Criminal negligence

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An act in which through in doing deliberate action, or in ommitting to do something that is a persons duty to do, shows wanton or reckless disregard for the safety or lives of other persons.

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due diligence

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A set of reasonable steps taken by a person or group of people, such as a company, in order to satisfy a legal requirement, which obliges them to do so.

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general intent

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The wilfulness to commit a harmful act or wrongful act for its own sake, with no ulterior motive.

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Intent

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A determination to perform an act that is wrongful, knowing what the results will be, and reckless despite the consequences.

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Knowledge

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An awareness of certain facts in relation to a crime that can utilized to establish mens rea

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liability

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Legal responsibility for a wrongful action.

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mens rea

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" The guilty mind" in Latin. it is the intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused.

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motive

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The reason a person has for committing a crime.

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parties to an offence

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Any one in a group which commits a crime or wrongful action, does or omits doing anything for the purpose of aiding another another to commit an offence, or abets an individual in committing a crime.

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Party to a common intention

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An act in which two or more persons form an intention in common to carry out an unlawful act and to assist each other along these lines and any one of said individuals, in carrying out the common purpose, commits an offence, knowing full well that the commission of a crime would be part of the common purpose proposed by a party.

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perpetrator (perp)

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A person who perpetrates a wrongful action.

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quasi-criminal laws

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A non-criminal offence that carries a penalty similar to that of a criminal offence, but that is subject to a less convoluted legal procedure than are criminal offences.

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recklessness

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Consciously and knowingly taking an unjustifiable risk that a reasonable person would not take.

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regulatory laws

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Delegation of legislature or constitution by a federal or provincial government body intended to protect the public welfare.

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specific intent

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The mental purpose, aim, or design to accomplish a specific harm or result by acting in a manner prohibited by law.

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strict liabilty offences

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A crime is one that does not require an intent to break the law. For example, parking ticket fines are a form of strict liability offence.

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willful blindness

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A situation where an individual deliberately seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for an offence by intentionally putting himself in a position where he will be ignorant of facts that would render him liable to prosecution.