Criminal Law
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Course Introduction
Criminal Law explores the foundational principles, statutes, and case law governing crimes and punishment within the legal system. This course examines the definition and classification of criminal offenses, elements required to prove guilt, defenses available to the accused, and the procedures employed from investigation through trial. Students will analyze significant cases, statutory interpretation, and policy considerations underlying criminal responsibility, while also discussing broader issues like sentencing, the rights of defendants, and the role of law enforcement. The course equips students with a critical understanding of the criminal justice process and prepares them to address practical and theoretical challenges in the field.
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Criminal Law 1st Edition by John L. Worrall
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Chapter 1: The Basics of Criminal Law
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Q1) Describe how cases move about in the state and federal court systems. How do cases arrive at the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer: Answers will vary, but should address, the initial arrest, bond hearing, arraignment, Grand Jury (if applicable), trial and jury, sentencing, sanctions, probation, parole, and incarceration.
Q2) What evidence seeks to demonstrate a certain point, such as drawings, diagrams, illustrations, and computer simulations that are used to help jurors understand how a crime was likely committed?
A)Demonstrative evidence
B)Circumstantial evidence
C)Real evidence
D)Material evidence
Answer: A
Q3) _____________ is a private wrong or injury, for which a court will provide a remedy in the form of an "action," or a lawsuit, between the two parties.
Answer: A TORT
Q4) A _________ opinion agrees with the majority decision but for different reasons. Answer: concurring
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Chapter 2: Limitations on the Criminal Law
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Q1) The system of government in the United States is a system of dual federalism. Discuss how this system realistically applies to the U.S. court system. Additionally, compare dual federalism with confederation.
Answer: Should include definition of dual federalism and confederation, a discussion of the dual court system in the United States, and a comparison of the existing system with confederation.
Q2) The void and vagueness doctrine is based on the due process clauses of what Amendments?
A)Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
B)Fourth and Fifth Amendments
C)Second and Fifth Amendments
D)Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
Answer: A
Q3) The U.S. Constitution divides governmental authority into what three branches?
A)Executive, legislative, and judicial
B)Executive, democratic, and governing
C)Democratic, judicial, and courts
D)Executive, ruling, and judicial
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Elements of Criminal Liability
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Q1) What is the requirement that the defendant's conduct was the cause in fact of the harm?
A) Factual causation
B) Actual causation
C) Intentional causation
D) Criminal causation
Answer: A
Q2) The apparent safety doctrine holds that a defendant is the legal cause of a resulting harm if the victim reaches a place of "apparent safety," at which point an intervening cause of harm comes into play.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) What is the intent to commit an act to achieve a certain criminal result?
A) Specific intent
B) Exclusive intent
C) Actual intent
D) General intent
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Justification Defenses
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Q1) The Supreme Court held that all claims that law enforcement officers have used excessive force-deadly or not-in the course of an arrest, investigatory stop, or other "seizure" of a free citizen, should be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment and its __________________ standard.
Q2) A woman who suffers repeatedly from unprovoked beatings from her intoxicated husband and assaults the husband by hitting him with a frying pan as soon as he enters the home may seek defense from prosecution under the _________________.
Q3) A person is justified in using _______________ force to protect another from the unlawful use of force by an aggressor.
Q4) Statute of limitations is the maximum amount of time allowed by law to seek prosecution for certain crimes or offenses.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A defense of necessity will likely succeed if a person drives on a suspended license, a relatively minor crime, to take a sick loved one to the hospital.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Excuse Defenses
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Q1) A disturbance of mental or physical capacities resulting from the introduction of any substance into the body is the formal definition of which term?
A)Insanity
B)Psychotic episodes
C)Intoxication
D)Drugs
Q2) Juvenile courts do not normally have mechanisms in place for transferring, or waiving, juveniles to adult court.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Duress is when the defendant is compelled or forced to commit a crime by threat or use of force.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The three categories of creative excuses are physiological, psychological, and sociological excuses, which are sometimes referred to as ________________ defenses.
Q5) _________________ is an excuse defense applicable when the defendant is forced to commit a crime by threat or force.
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Chapter 6: Complicity and Vicarious Liability
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Q1) What will happen in a situation where the accomplice commits to the crime, but turns and runs away at the moment the crime is committed without any effort to stop or prevent the crime?
A)The defendant may be convicted regardless of his or her lack of participation.
B)The defendant will be acquitted because of his or her lack of participation in the crime.
C)The defendant will be acquitted because of his lack of mens rea or actus reus.
D)None of the above.
Q2) An accomplice is "one who unknowingly, involuntarily, and with lack of common intent unites with the principal offender in the commission of a crime."
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the term that refers to someone who intentionally assists the principal in the first degree with the commission of a crime and who is actually or constructively present at the time of the crime?
A)Principal in the Second Degree
B)Principal in the Third Degree
C)Principal accomplice
D)None of the above
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Chapter 7: Inchoate Crimes
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Q1) What two forms of defense are unique to attempt?
A)Impossibility and abandonment
B)Improbability and lack of opportunity
C)Probability and proximity
D)None of the above
Q2) The abandonment defense requires that the defendant seek to defeat the conspiracy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is an inchoate offense in which an agreement is reached to commit a crime?
A)Criminal attempt
B)Solitary attempt
C)Conspiracy
D)Mutual agreement
Q4) If crime is consummated, or completed, then it is no longer just an _______________.
Q5) A suspect shooting a person who is already dead is an example of "hybrid legal impossibility."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Homicide
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Q1) What term applies to murder that is not willful, premeditated, and deliberate?
A)Capital murder
B)First-degree murder
C)Second-degree murder
D)Criminal Attempt murder
Q2) Circumstances that would lend towards a harsher penalty during sentencing are known as _____________________.
Q3) What must be present for homicide to be a criminal offense?
A)The act must be unjustified and unexcused
B)The act must be personal and emotional
C)The act must be substantial and verifiable
D)None of the above
Q4) Criminal Negligence Manslaughter and Criminal Act Manslaughter are two types of what type of offense?
A)Voluntary manslaughter
B)Involuntary manslaughter
C)Second-degree murder
D)None of the above
Q5) ___________________ is an unlawful homicide committed with the malice aforethought required for murder.
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Chapter 9: Assaultive Offenses
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Q1) What is the offense when the suspect is in possession of a weapon while committing the crime of robbery?
A)Robbery
B)Armed robbery
C)Shoplifting
D)Pickpocket
Q2) Assault and battery are among the most misused terms in criminal law.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Modern definitions of rape incorporate _________________ as well as forcible intercourse between married couples.
Q4) According to laws today, what is the offense when a person uses trickery to gain consent for sexual assault?
A)Rape by deception
B)Rape by inclusion
C)Rape without knowledge
D)Trickery is acceptable as long as the person consents to the act.
Q5) Intentionally frightening another person by following, harassing, and/or terrorizing that person commits the crime of _____________.
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Chapter 10: Property Damage and Invasion
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Q1) Identify and discuss the mens rea and actus reus requirements of arson. What happens when homicide is added to the act of arson? What if the actor is unaware of the presence of a person when he or she commits the act of arson?
Q2) Which of the following was one of the elements under common law when arson was limited to dwellings?
A)A malicious act
B)The act of setting a fire
C)Burning a dwelling
D)All of the above
Q3) Hacking refers to a person breaking into computer systems with the intent to alter or modify settings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The <i>actus reus</i>of modern-day arson is typically damage by
Q5) Trespassing in the State of Texas is considered to be a specific intent offense.
A)True
B)False
Q6) One of the primary cybercrime uses of the computer is ________________.
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Chapter 11: Theft and Analogous Offenses
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Q1) What is another name for identity theft?
A)Identity cropping
B)Identity stealing
C)Identity fraud
D)None of the above
Q2) George steals 100 watches from a local jewelry store while the owner is distracted with a customer. George sells the stolen watches to another jeweler in another part of town. What charges may be filed against the second jeweler?
A)Burglary
B)Accessory
C)Theft
D)None of the above
Q3) What is blackmail, which consists of taking another's property by threats of future harm?
A)Embezzlement
B)Fencing
C)Extortion
D)None of the above
Q4) The trespass element of larceny stems from the Latin term _________________.
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Chapter 12: Public Order, Morality, and Vice Crimes
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Q1) Jake sponsors a quiet, private game of poker in the basement of his nightclub every Friday night. In most states this is an illegal act known as solicitation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The primary reason incest is taboo even today is because incest can produce
Q3) What is the term for any association or group of six or more persons that either requires, as a condition of membership, the commission of a crime of violence or, as part of its purpose or frequent activities, violates criminal laws?
A)Criminal street gang
B)Religious groups
C)Private club members
D)None of the above
Q4) A drug or other substance that has a high potential for abuse and has no current accepted medical use in treatment in the United States is consider a _______________ controlled substance.
Q5) Fornication and _____________ are acts that criminal law traditionally prohibited even though they are consensual sexual acts.
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Chapter 13: Terrorism and Offenses Against the State
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Q1) What arson attack in 1998 serves as an example of ecoterrorism in the United States?
A)Arson attack at the San Diego Zoo
B)Arson attack on Fort Hood, Texas military base
C)Arson attack against Vail, Colorado ski resort
D)None of the above
Q2) Compare the two categories of available statutes created by the U.S. Justice Department to aid in classifying and filing charges against terrorist activists. Explain why each offense is placed in a specific classification.
Q3) What is the act of using unlawful means (sabotage, terrorism, etc.) to accomplish economic or political reform?
A)Criminal sabotage
B)Criminal syndicating
C)Criminal syndicalism
D)None of the above
Q4) Congress has authority to regulate certain types of conduct that take place beyond the territorial borders of the United States.
A)True
B)False
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