Exam 3: Classification of Crimes and Basic Elements of Criminal Responsibility

Bigamy is a specific intent crime.

___________ holds a person criminally liable even when the consequence of his or her action is not what the actor actually intended?

The intention to commit an act __________ is an example of specific intent.

__________ would NOT be considered by a prosecutor in deciding whether to charge an offense as a felony or a misdemeanor

__________ is NOT used to describe the guilty state of mind required for criminal liability.

A civil offense is prosecuted by government attorneys who represent the community as a whole.

If a person who has committed a crime voluntarily later regrets the act,he or she will not be held equally responsible.

Punishment for criminal and civil wrongdoing in Anglo-American law differs in

If two people shoot a victim and hit the victim's vital organs simultaneously

An example of a general intent crime is

Tort liability is different from criminal liability in that

Causes that are separate from the defendant's actions and for which the defendant is not help responsibility for an harm caused are named

Do criminal defendants have more legal safeguards than civil defendants do? Why or why not?

An example of a criminal omission is the failure to

Misdemeanors are often offenses that violate the public welfare.

A person cannot be convicted of a crime unless the prosecution proves beyond a reasonable doubt a concurrence of a voluntary act and the required mental state that actually and proximately caused the prohibited social harm.

Name two examples of speech that can be considered criminal acts and thus not fall under the protection of the First Amendment.

Numerous judicial decisions hold that a person is criminally liable when he or she stands by and does nothing to help someone else in jeopardy.

Criminal liability requires a concurrence of the actus reus and the mens rea.

A criminal's ____________ is different from a hope,desire,or wish.