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Crimes Against the Person MCQ

Crimes Against the Person MCQ

 

1. Is year-and-a-day rule doctrine that if victim died within one year and one day of harm caused by offender, offender would be liable for the death; advances in medical science have rendered such laws obsolete?

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Correct Answer: True

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2. _____ is known as federal law guaranteeing the equal treatment of the sexes in educational institutions that receive federal aid; used to prosecute sex-related acts at a college tribunal

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Correct Answer: Title IX

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3. _____ is defined as threatening violence to a specific person or to cause public pandemonium

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Correct Answer: Terroristic threats

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4. _____ is typically nonforcible sexual relations involving a teenager and a partner older by 4 years or more

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Correct Answer: Statutory rape

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5. Is stalking repeated acts of communication or physical harassment by a compulsive offender toward a victim?

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Correct Answer: True

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6. _____ is known as oral/genital contact or anal intercourse

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Correct Answer: Sodomy

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7. _____ is defined as a crime typically engaged in by juveniles who text intimate photos of themselves to one another

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Correct Answer: Sexting

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8. _____ is a death that results from an offender’s intent to cause serious bodily harm or a murder that lacks one element of first-degree murder

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Correct Answer: Second-degree murder

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9. Is robbery the taking of personal property by force or threat of force?

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Correct Answer: True

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10. _____ is known as a partner who posts to social media their former partner’s intimate photos shared during the course of the relationship

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Correct Answer: “Revenge porn”

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11. _____ is defined as laws that prevent the defendant from introducing evidence about the victim’s sexual reputation or previous sexual activity with people other than the defendant to discredit their report of rape, except where such exclusion would violate the Confrontation Clause

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Correct Answer: Rape shield laws

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12. _____ is sex against the victim’s will, without consent, by force or threat of force

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Correct Answer: Rape

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13. Is provoking act must be so severe that a reasonable person would react with deadly violence; a precursor for “heat of passion” voluntary manslaughter?

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Correct Answer: True

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14. _____ is known as permanent disfigurement of a victim

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Correct Answer: Mayhem

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15. _____ is defined as an unintentional killing (involuntary), or an intentional killing done in the heat of the passion and without premeditation (voluntary)

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Correct Answer: Manslaughter

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16. _____ is the historical term for premeditation

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Correct Answer: Malice aforethought

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17. Is kidnapping the unlawful taking away and confinement of another by force or threat of force?

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Correct Answer: True

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18. _____ is known as sexual relations between nonspousal family members related by blood, marriage, or adoption

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Correct Answer: Incest

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19. _____ is defined as the killing of one human being by another. Not all homicides are crimes; some are accidents, and some are justified

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Correct Answer: Homicide

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20. _____ is an act of provocation so severe that it would induce a reasonable person to kill; raised successfully at trial, it may reduce murder charges to manslaughter

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Correct Answer: Heat of passion

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21. Is hate crime choosing to physically harm a victim based on the person’s perceived race, religion, gender, or sexual identity?

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Correct Answer: True

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22. _____ is known as willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder; the highest form of specific-intent murder

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Correct Answer: First-degree murder

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23. _____ is defined as a crime in which a death results from the commission, or attempted commission, of a felony (rape, robbery, kidnapping, arson, mayhem, felonious escape, burglary); all co-felons may be responsible for the death

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Correct Answer: Felony murder

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24. _____ is restraining someone’s liberty or freedom of movement by force or threat of force

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Correct Answer: False imprisonment

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25. Is deviate sexual intercourse unlawful sexual activity often involving minor children?

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Correct Answer: True

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26. _____ is known as a standard that allows a jury to infer that the defendant had the specific intent to kill if he used a deadly weapon during the commission of a crime

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Correct Answer: Deadly weapon doctrine

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27. _____ is defined as an item used in any manner to cause serious bodily injury or death

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Correct Answer: Deadly weapon

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28. _____ is using electronic devices to continually contact, monitor, and surveil victims

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Correct Answer: Cyberstalking

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29. Is cyberbullying using electronic devices to continually harass victims to cause emotional harm?

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Correct Answer: True

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30. _____ is known as children cannot consent to sexual activity; any such activity is deemed sex abuse

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Correct Answer: Child sex abuse

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31. _____ is defined as intentional and unconsented touching that is harmful or offensive

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Correct Answer: Battery

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32. _____ is An aggressive action that places the victim in fear of an imminent battery; certain specific physical attacks are also defined as assaults

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Correct Answer: Assault

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33. Is aMBER alert system nationwide system using media outlets to alert the public that a child has been abducted and to be on the lookout?

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Correct Answer: True

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34. _____ is known as assault that an offender commits while in the commission of another crime or against a victim who is a member of a protected class, such as a child, a law enforcement officer, or a prison employee

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Correct Answer: Aggravated assault and battery

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35. A killing done with a hot and enraged mind is typically first-degree murder.

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Correct Answer: False

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36. A deadly weapon is anything used in a manner to cause serious bodily injury or death.

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Correct Answer: True

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37. Parents can never be convicted of kidnapping their children.

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Correct Answer: False

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38. Robbery is different from simple larceny because of the use of ______.

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Correct Answer: Force or threat of force

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39. A felony that can trigger the felony murder room includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Trespass

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40. A requirement of first-degree murder is that it is committed with a cool mind, which means ______.

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Correct Answer: Deliberate

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41. In all 50 states, which type of sodomy is legal?

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Correct Answer: Between consenting adults

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42. For sexual relations with other children or adults, children are legally unable to ______.

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Correct Answer: Consent

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43. The federal law that is the basis for college campus disciplinary proceedings involving sexual misconduct when enacted was credited with ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Equal treatment of women’s sports teams

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44. The actus reus of rape has the following two components ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Force and absence of consent

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45. It is legal in America to hate, but it is an illegal hate crime when an offender based on his hate ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Hurts people

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46. The willful infliction of repeated harm through the use of electronic devices is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Cyberbullying

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47. Stalkers who suffer a break from reality represent a small number of cases and typify the offender whose “object of pursuit” is ______.

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Correct Answer: A stranger

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48. Factors that indicate an offender has committed kidnapping as opposed to false imprisonment is whether the asportation of the victim did any of the following EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Decreased the opportunity for the offender to surrender

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49. Ozona was in the cafeteria and saw Matt with a plate full of French fries. Ozona wanted the fries and forcibly wrenched the plate of fries from Matt’s hands. Under common law, Ozona has committed ______.

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Correct Answer: Battery

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