Assignment:
QUESTION 1. Select all that distinguish an action as being under criminal law rather than civil law.
A. Individual interest
B. Pubic interest
C. Low standard of proof
D. High standard of proof
E. Maintain social order and stability
QUESTION 2. In order to involve the citizenry in the creation of laws, as opposed to applying laws to crime by judges and perhaps without precedent, the U.S. began to establish:
A. Felonies
B. Misdemeanors in the Second Degree
C. Criminal codes
D. Napoleonic codes
QUESTION 3. Select all that apply to requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
A. A state or local law may not regulate an area that is reserved to the federal government.
B. A federal law may not encroach upon state power.
C. A law may infringe upon the fundamental civil and political rights of individuals only in compelling circumstances.
D. A law must be clearly written and provide notice to citizens and to the police of the conduct that is prohibited.
E. A law must be nondiscriminatory and may not impose cruel and unusual punishment. f. A law also may not be retroactive and punish acts that were not crimes at the time that they were committed.
QUESTION 4. Select all that apply to completing the following statement: Moral blameworthiness is related to the "mental part," or men's rea, of crimes because it seeks to establish _____.
A. responsibility
B. forensic evidence
C. deterrence
D. a fitting punishment
QUESTION 5. An individual satisfies the _____ standard when he or she is aware that circumstances exist, or that a result is practically certain to result from his or her conduct.
A. purpose
B. knowledge
C. reckless
D. negligent
QUESTION 6. A _____ offense is a crime that does not require a men's rea, and an individual may be convicted based solely on the commission of the criminal act.
A. strict liability
B. public welfare
C. strict welfare
D. public liability
QUESTION 7. A _____ intent is a mental determination to accomplish a crime, such as breaking into a home for the purpose of theft.
A. general
B. transferred
C. specific
D. constructive
QUESTION 8. An arsonist who intends to burn a factory, but whose fire spreads to an adjacent office building, could be convicted of multiple offenses due to which type of intent?
A. General
B. Transferred
C. Specific
D. Constructive
QUESTION 9. A reckless driver cuts off a car when changing lanes at excessive speeds. The cut-off car crashes into the guardrail and kills the driver. The reckless driver could be convicted of homicide due to which type of intent.
A. General
B. Transferred
C. Specific
D. Constructive
QUESTION 10. _____ requires you to ask whether "but for" the defendant's act, the victim would have died.
A. A proximate cause
B. An independent cause
C. A factual cause
D. An intervening cause