Criminal Law
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Course Introduction
Criminal Law explores the foundational principles, doctrines, and procedures that govern the identification, prosecution, and punishment of criminal offenses. This course covers the classification of crimes, elements required for criminal liability, and defenses available to those accused, including insanity, self-defense, and necessity. Students examine the structure of statutory and case law while analyzing key concepts such as mens rea (criminal intent), actus reus (criminal act), and the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors. The course also addresses the broader societal, ethical, and policy aspects of criminal law, fostering critical thinking about justice, public safety, and the balance between individual rights and governmental powers.
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Criminal Law 12th Edition by Joel Samaha
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Chapter 1: Criminal Law and Punishment in Ussociety: An Overview
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Q1) Criminal law is established by which of the following?
A) elected representatives
B) administrative agencies
C) judges
D) all of these establish criminal law
Answer: D
Q2) The majority opinion is the law of the case.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) City,town,and village governments do not enjoy broad powers to create criminal laws.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Both federal and state legislatures frequently grant______________agencies the authority to make rules.
Answer: administrative
Q5) Criminal law is established by__________________ representatives.
Answer: elected
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Chapter 2: Constitutional Limits on Criminal Law
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Q1) The right to a jury trial also guarantees that no increase in sentencing can occur without the finding of all relevant facts by a jury.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following categories of expression is not protected by the First Amendment?
A) obscenity
B) libel
C) fighting words
D) none of these
Answer: A
Q3) What doctrine is concerned with giving individuals fair notice of what is criminal and preventing arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement of laws?
A) proportionality
B) void-for-vagueness
C) obscenity
D) equal protection
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Criminal Act: The First Principle of Criminal Liability
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Q1) Which doctrine imposes a legal duty to help or call for help for imperiled strangers?
A) the "Family Member" doctrine
B) the health care professionals rule
C) the American bystander rule
D) the "Good Samaritan" doctrine
Answer: D
Q2) According to the general principle of actus reus,every crime has to include at least one
A) Act.
B) voluntary act.
C) involuntary act.
D) intended act.
Answer: B
Q3) The actus reus requirement reserves the harsh sanction of the criminal law for cases of actual danger.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The General Principles of Criminal Liability: Mens
Rea, Concurrence, Ignorance, and Mistake
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Q1) Manuel's defense involves the prosecution's failure to prove what beyond a reasonable doubt?
A) actus reus
B) mens rea
C) concurrence
D) attendant circumstances
Q2) Subjective fault requires a "bad mind" in the actor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Model Penal Code (MPC)breaks down mens rea into four mental states-purpose,knowledge,recklessness,and negligence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What term is about holding an actor criminally accountable for the results of her conduct?
A) concurrence
B) causation
C) factual causation
D) practical causation
Q5) Recklessness involves conscious _______________ creation.
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Chapter 5: Defenses to Criminal Liability I: Justifications
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Q1) The Personal Protection Law (2009)became the model for most of the new castle laws.
Q2) Which doctrine holds that a person does not have to retreat if he or she didn't start the fight,even if it is safely possible?
A) the stand-your-ground rule
B) the self-defense rule
C) the preemptive-strike rule
D) the self-preservation rule
Q3) The defense of consent represents the high value placed on individual in a free society.
Q4) Some self-defense statutes allow you to kill someone you reasonably believe is about to commit a serious felony against you that doesn't threaten either your life or serious bodily injury.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "New Castle Doctrine" laws are transforming the law of self-defense.
A)True
B)False
Q6) There is no duty to from your own home to avoid using deadly force.
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Chapter 6: Defenses to Criminal Liability II: Excuses
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Q1) The defense of insanity excuses criminal liability when it seriously damages defendants' capacity to control their acts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which test of insanity focuses on the defendant's inability to control their conduct?
A) Durham
B) irresistible impulse
C) right-wrong
D) McNaughtan
Q3) Most states reject diminished capacity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Intoxication is never a defense.
A)True
B)False
Q5) U.S.courts have always accepted the defense of entrapment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) intoxication is no excuse for committing a crime
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Chapter 7: Parties to Crime and Vicarious Liability
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Q1) Today,participants before and during the commission of a crime are called
A) accessories.
B) principals.
C) accomplices.
D) assistants.
Q2) Which of the following cases involved Enron and an accounting firm that was convicted of obstructing the Securities and Exchange Commission?
A) U.S.v.Arthur Andersen,LLP (2004)
B) Railroad Company v.United States (1909)
C) State v.Zeta Chi Fraternity (1997)
D) Dunn v.Commonwealth (1997)
Q3) The mens rea of accessory-after-the-fact statutes states that the accessory personally aided the person who committed the crime.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The idea that when you choose to participate in crime,you forfeit your right to be treated as an individual is personal theory.
Q5) Actions taken after crimes are committed aren't themselves actus reus.
Q6) Respondeat superior means let the answer.
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Chapter 8: Inchoate Crimes
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Q1) What test of criminal actus reus is concerned with whether defendants have control of everything they need to commit the crime?
A) the indispensable element test
B) the dangerous proximity test
C) the unequivocality test
D) the all but the last act test
Q2) A pattern of illegal activity carried out in the furtherance of an enterprise owned or controlled by those engaged in the activity is called
A) chaining.
B) racketeering.
C) conspiring.
D) soliciting.
Q3) Creating criminal for uncompleted crimes flies in the face of the notion that free societies punish people for what they've done,not for what they might do.
Q4) The core of conspiracy is an agreement to commit a crime.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Attempt actus reus is based on theories of attempt.
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Chapter 9: Crimes Against Persons I: Murder and Manslaughter
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Q1) Identify and explain the different kinds of murder.Identify the different components of each.
Q2) Much of the body of criminal homicide law is about grading the seriousness of the offense.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As the common law developed,murder was distinguished from manslaughter in that murder required
A) malice aforethought.
B) adequate provocation.
C) heat of passion.
D) no actus reus.
Q4) What crime against persons did Joe commit?
A) felony murder
B) euthanasia
C) feticide
D) manslaughter
Q5) Explain how most criminal homicide statutes can be applied to corporations.Why are prosecutions of corporations for criminal homicide rare?
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Chapter 10: Crimes Against Persons II: Sex Offenses, bodily Injury,
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Q1) It's almost impossible to get details about which kind of rape victims?
A) males
B) children
C) females
D) gay victims
Q2) Kidnapping and false imprisonment both violate what right?
A) the right of locomotion
B) the right of freedom of movement
C) the right of transformation
D) the right of freedom from penetration
Q3) In a few jurisdictions,mistake of fact with regard to the victim's ____________ is a defense to statutory rape.
Q4) Which of the following is true of the crime of rape?
A) Rape is a general-intent crime.
B) Rape is a specific-intent crime.
C) All types of rape require force.
D) Statutory rape is the most common type of rape.
Q5) Stalking,although an ancient practice,is a new crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Crimes Against Property
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Q1) Discuss the crime of receiving stolen property.What are the mens rea and actus reus of receiving stolen property? What is the purpose of the requirement that receivers have to intend to keep the property permanently?
Q2) What is the name of the crime when an attacker compromises routing packets to direct a file or transmission to a different location?
A) spoofing
B) piggybacking
C) data diddling
D) salami attack
Q3) There are how many types of cybercrimes?
A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
Q4) First-degree arson includes burning unoccupied structures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The heart of the crime of criminal trespass is ________ another person's property.
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Chapter 12: Crimes Against Public Order and Morals
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Q1) "Broken windows" theory claims that "quality of life" crimes are linked to crime.
Q2) Disorderly conduct has a impact on the criminal justice system.
Q3) Historically,men have been punished more for prostitution than women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Vagrancy means to remain in one place with no apparent purpose.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The broken windows theory was originally proposed by Wilson and Mill.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Crimes against public order and morals affect fewer people than the crimes against persons and their property.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Order and liberty are goals that can be inconsistent. A)True
B)False
Q8) Civil gang (CGIs)are a growing gang suppression strategy.
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Chapter 13: Crimes Against the State
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Q1) The revolutionaries who wrote the U.S.Constitution knew that the new government they were about to create couldn't without the active support of most of the people.
Q2) Treason is the only crime aimed at combating disloyalty and keeping the allegiance of our citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The crime committed by Josef can be found in what act?
A) the Treason Act
B) the USA PATRIOT Act
C) the Sedition Act
D) the Sabotage Act
Q4) Everything the revolutionaries who wrote the U.S.Constitution did to further the interests of the colonies was done under threat of prosecution for A) treason.
B) sedition.
C) espionage.
D) sabotage.
Q5) What is the USA PATRIOT Act? What crimes does it include?
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