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Incomplete Crimes MCQ

_____ is known as an inchoate offense that involves promises to harm, injure, or kill with intent to place victim in fear.

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Correct Answer: Threats

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_____ is defined as the crime an offender takes steps toward committing and intends to carry out.

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Correct Answer: Target offense

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_____ is test to determine whether a defendant’s actions satisfy the actus reus requirement for attempt.

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Correct Answer: Substantial step

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Is stalking public order offense involves tracking a person’s movements with intent to harass or cause harm?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as inchoate offense, encouraging another person to engage in a criminal act.

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Correct Answer: Solicitation

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_____ is defined as a defense to an incomplete crime, such as attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy.

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Correct Answer: Renunciation

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_____ is action taken by someone who plans to commit a crime, such as a person who drives to the bank he intends to rob. An overt act is required for some inchoate offenses, such as attempt and conspiracy.

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Correct Answer: Overt act

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Is merger doctrine when two or more incomplete crimes are committed, the less-serious offense may merge into the more serious offense. For instance, solicitation merges with attempt. When a person completes the target crime, the attempt merges with the completed offense and he can only be convicted of the completed offense or attempt?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as test used to determine whether a person’s actions meet the actus reus requirement for the crime of attempt. “Mere preparation” is insufficient for an attempt conviction.

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Correct Answer: Mere preparation

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_____ is defined as a defense offered by a defendant who has been charged with an inchoate offense, such as attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy.

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Correct Answer: Legal impossibility

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_____ is when a person takes a step toward committing crime but the crime is not completed, he may still be held criminally liable.

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Correct Answer: Incomplete crime

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Is factual impossibility a typically unsuccessful defense to the inchoate crimes of attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy. Defense arises in instances where a defendant did all he could to carry out a crime but for reasons beyond his control (e.g., the person he plans to rob moved out of state), the crime could not be completed. Because the crime would have been successful if the circumstances had been as the defendant believed them to be, the law does not allow him to benefit from the “impossibility” he was unaware of?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as one of several tests used to determine whether the actions a person has taken towards committing a crime are punishable as an attempt crime. Using this high threshold would mean conviction only in cases where the potential offender had almost completed the target offense.

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Correct Answer: Dangerous proximity to success

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_____ is defined as an inchoate offense involving an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime. Some state laws require an agreement and an overt action taken toward commission of the crime.

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Correct Answer: Conspiracy

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_____ is an inchoate offense that requires specific intent to commit a crime and overt steps toward carrying out the crime.

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Correct Answer: Attempt

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Is abandonment a defense to attempt and solicitation, both incomplete offenses. Involves a complete and voluntary renunciation and withdrawal from the crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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Complex inchoate crimes do not have a target offense.

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Correct Answer: False

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Attempt is the most controversial of the inchoate crimes.

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Correct Answer: False

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An example of a wheel conspiracy is a drug trafficking ring.

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Correct Answer: False

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A defendant charged with criminal solicitation could not argue a defense of abandonment or renunciation.

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Correct Answer: False

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Solicitation involves only one actor.

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Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following addressed the impossibility defense?

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Correct Answer: Commonwealth v. McCloskey (1975)

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Impossibility may be a defense to an attempt crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following cases offers an example of an abandonment defense?

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Correct Answer: Commonwealth v. McCloskey (1975)

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Abandonment is a defense available to someone who has been charged with an incomplete crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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In ______ of states, a conviction for attempt requires proof that the offender had the specific intent to commit the crime.

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Correct Answer: 100%

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In most jurisdictions, if the target offense is a felony, the attempt to commit the crime is considered

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Correct Answer: A felony.

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Mere preparation refers to the minimal, preliminary steps that are taken to engage in crime.

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Correct Answer: True

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A ______ is a clear, definitive action toward the successful commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Substantial step

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Which of the following cases addresses the distinction between actions that constitute mere preparation and those that amount to substantial steps toward a completed crime?

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Correct Answer: State v. Smith (2004)

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Specific intent is only required for attempt.

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Correct Answer: False

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Under early ______ common law, attempt was not punished as a crime.

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Correct Answer: English

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Which of the following crimes harm society even though they may not cause direct physical harm?

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Individuals who commit incomplete crimes cannot be charged with criminal wrongdoing.

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Correct Answer: False

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