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15 Cards in this Set
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Actual Possession |
Having physical control or custody over something.
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Actus Reus |
The act or omission that a statute seeks to prohibit. |
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Causation |
An element of some crimes that requires that the criminal act (actus reus) cause the harm the law seeks to prohibit. |
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Concurrence |
An element of crimes requiring that the criminal act (actus reus) be a product of the criminal intent (mens rea). |
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Constructive Possession |
The legal doctrine of a person being in possession of an object even when they were not in actual physical control of the object at the time. |
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Elements (of crimes) |
A set of facts that must be proven to convict a defendant of a particular crime. |
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Harm |
For crimes that name a particular harm that the law seeks to prohibit (such as the killing of a person in murder), the harm must actually occur. |
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Knowingly |
A culpable mental state that requires the actor to be aware of the nature of his or her action; the actor knew what would happen when he or she acted. |
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Malice Aforethought |
A deliberate, premeditated intent to cause a criminal harm; an element of common law murder. |
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Model Penal Code |
A model criminal code first developed by the American Law Institute (ALI) in 1962; adopted by many states. |
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Negligently |
A culpable mental state specifying that the actor should have been aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk. |
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Omission |
Failure to perform a legally required act such as paying taxes or providing care to children; a type of actus reus in criminal law. |
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Possession |
Having dominion or control over something; the actus reus of many crimes such as the possession of weapons or controlled substances. |
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Purposely |
A culpable mental state requiring that the actor have the criminal act as his or her "conscious object;" the criminal harm was done on purpose. |
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Recklessly |
A culpable mental state requiring that the actor consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk. |
