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Parties to Crime MCQ

_____ is known as holding an individual or corporation liable for a crime committed by another based on the nature of the relationship between the parties.

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Correct Answer: Vicarious liability

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_____ is defined as liability for serving or providing alcohol to minors in the event of an accident or injury.

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Correct Answer: Social host liability laws

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_____ is common law term for individuals who are present at the crime scene and assist in the crime.

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Correct Answer: Principals in the second degree

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Is principals in the first degree common law term for the actual perpetrators of a crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as individuals liable for assisting another to commit a crime.

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Correct Answer: Parties to a crime

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_____ is defined as statutory rule that parents are responsible for the criminal acts of their children.

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Correct Answer: Parental responsibility laws

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_____ is a person encouraging or facilitating the commission of a crime will be held liable as an accomplice for the crime he or she aided and abetted as well as for crimes that are the natural and probable outcome of the criminal conduct.

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Correct Answer: Natural and probable consequences doctrine

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Is mere presence rule an individual’s presence at the scene of a crime generally does not satisfy the actus reus requirement for accomplice liability?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the guilt of a party to a crime based on the criminal acts of the primary party.

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Correct Answer: Derivative liability

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_____ is defined as parties liable as principals before and during the commission of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Accomplices

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_____ is individuals under the common law who assist an individual prior to the commission of a crime and who are not present at the scene of the crime.

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Correct Answer: Accessories before the fact

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Is accessories after the fact individuals liable for assisting an offender to avoid arrest, prosecution, or punishment?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as parties responsible for the separate and lesser offense of assisting a criminal offender to avoid apprehension, prosecution, or conviction.

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Correct Answer: Accessories

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Parental responsibility statutes do not hold parents responsible for the failure to take reasonable steps to prevent their children from engaging in serious or persistent criminal behavior.

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Correct Answer: False

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The Pinkerton rule provides that a conspiracy to commit a crime and the crime itself are separate and distinct crimes. An individual may be charged with one or both of these offenses.

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Correct Answer: True

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The ______ rule provides that being present and watching the commission of a crime is not sufficient to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability.

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Correct Answer: Mere presence

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Which case provides that there is an exception to the mere presence doctrine when the defendant possesses a duty to intervene?

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Correct Answer: State v. Walden

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______ liability holds individuals responsible who affirmatively aid and abet a criminal act with a purposeful intent.

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Correct Answer: Accomplice

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Individuals who assist the perpetrators following the crime will be charged as principals in the second degree.

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Correct Answer: False

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Under modern law, both principals and accessories are punishable as felons.

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Correct Answer: False

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Accessories were actually present and carried out the crime while principals assisted the accessories.

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Correct Answer: False

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______ are individuals who, knowing that a crime has been committed, assisted the perpetrators.

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Correct Answer: Accessories after the fact

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______ assist those who are present and carry out the crime.

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Correct Answer: Accessories

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