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Elements of Crimes MCQ

_____ is defined as knowledge is imputed to individuals who consciously avoid awareness in order to avoid criminal responsibility.

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Correct Answer: Willful blindness

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_____ is the written record of trial proceedings.

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Correct Answer: Trial transcript

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Is transferred intent the intent to harm one individual is transferred to another?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a crime that does not require a criminal intent.

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Correct Answer: Strict liability offense

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_____ is defined as a “characteristic” or a “condition” or “state of being.” The rule is that you may not be criminally punished for “who you are”; you may be held liable only for “what you do.”

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Correct Answer: Status

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_____ is a mental determination to accomplish a specific result.

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Correct Answer: Specific intent

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Is result crimes requires that the act cause a very specific harm and requires a specific intent?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a defendant’s criminal act leads to an act undertaken by the victim in reaction to the threat. An unforeseeable and abnormal responsive act limits the defendant’s criminal liability.

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Correct Answer: Responsive intervening act

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_____ is defined as conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a law-abiding person would observe in the defendant’s situation.

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Correct Answer: Recklessly

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_____ is a conscious intent to cause a particular result.

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Correct Answer: Purposely

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Is public welfare offenses regulatory offenses carrying fines that typically do not require a criminal intent?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the legally responsible cause of a criminal harm, which may involve policy considerations.

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Correct Answer: Proximate cause

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_____ is defined as failure to act or to intervene to assist another.

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Correct Answer: Omission

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_____ is a failure to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the actor’s situation.

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Correct Answer: Negligently

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Is motive the underlying reason that explains or inspires an individual to act?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the mental element of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Mens rea

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_____ is defined as awareness that conduct is practically certain to cause a result or awareness that circumstances exist.

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Correct Answer: Knowingly

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_____ is several individuals exercise dominion and control over an object.

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Correct Answer: Joint possession

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Is involuntary act unconscious act or automatism?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a cause that occurs between the defendant’s criminal act and a social harm.

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Correct Answer: Intervening cause

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_____ is defined as legislation requiring individuals to assist an individual in peril.

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Correct Answer: Good samaritan law

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_____ is an intent to commit an actus reus.

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Correct Answer: General intent

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Is fleeting possession temporary dominion and control over an object and typically not considered possession for purposes of criminal liability?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a rule in Europe imposing a legal duty on individuals to assist those in peril.

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Correct Answer: European bystander rule

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_____ is defined as the legal obligation to act.

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Correct Answer: Duty to intervene

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_____ is the intent to achieve a specific result.

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Correct Answer: Crimes of cause and result

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Is contraband material that is unlawful to possess or to manufacture?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an individual who retains legal possession over property that is not within his or her actual control.

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Correct Answer: Constructive possession

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_____ is defined as individuals who act in a gross and wantonly reckless fashion are considered to intend the natural consequences of their actions and are guilty of a willful and intentional battery or homicide.

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Correct Answer: Constructive intent

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_____ is a criminal intent must trigger and coincide with a criminal act.

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Correct Answer: Concurrence

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Is coincidental intervening act a defendant’s criminal act results in the victim being at a particular place at a particular time and being impacted by an independent intervening act. The defendant is responsible for foreseeable coincidental intervening acts?

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Correct Answer: True

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Is cause in fact the defendant must be shown to be the “but for” cause of the harm or injury?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as there must be a connection between an act and the resulting prohibited harm.

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Correct Answer: Causation

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_____ is defined as the conditions or context required for a crime.

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Correct Answer: Attendant circumstances

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_____ is no legal duty to assist or to rescue an individual in danger.

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Correct Answer: American bystander rule

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Is actus reus a criminal act, the physical or external component of a crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as an object within an individual’s immediate physical control or on his or her person.

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Correct Answer: Actual possession

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Recklessness involves an awareness of harm that is lacking in negligence.

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Correct Answer: True

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______ possession means an individual’s awareness that he or she is in possession of an object.

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Correct Answer: Knowing

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Criminal intent is also referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: Mens rea

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______ intent provides that individuals who are grossly and wantonly reckless are considered to intend the natural consequences of their actions.

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Correct Answer: Constructive

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______ means that a defendant acted deliberately.

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Correct Answer: Purposely

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What are the considerations behind the legal concept of causation?

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Correct Answer: An individual’s act that results in social harm should allow for the imposition of punishment as appropriate.

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There must be concurrence between the actus reus and the mens rea.

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Correct Answer: True

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Congress and state legislatures typically indicate strict liability laws by omitting language such as knowingly and purposely.

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Correct Answer: True

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The law does NOT consider individuals who are less reckless than blameworthy.

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Correct Answer: False

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A(n) ______ is a failure to act or a negative act.

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Correct Answer: Omission

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