Question 1

What are the key issues in determining if someone is a principal to a crime?

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Question 2

Mala in se crimes are wrong due to their cultural relativity to that which is considered prohibited by society at the time the crime is codified.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What is a principal to a crime?

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Question 4

Corpus delicti is the substance of a crime that consists of an injury or loss and the criminal act that resulted in it.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The legal concept of vicarious liability seeks to

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A)  Relieve the actual offender of a crime of any responsibility for the crime 
B)  Find a non-offender guilty of the offense even though the party committed no act or never intended the act be done 
C)  Only hold parent responsible for all acts by their children 
D)  Apply only in criminal conspiracy cases

Question 6

Explain the term, "corpus delecti."

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Question 7

What influences that which governments define as crimes?

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Question 8

Which of the following demonstrate how one approach to defining crime is accomplished by classification by grade and severity?

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A)  Degrees of a criminal act based on the level of involvement by the actor 
B)  The dividing of crimes into two classifications of severe and less severe, called felonies and misdemeanors 
C)  Defining serious from less serious crime by classifying them as federal or state crime 
D)  A & B only

Question 9

What is a summary or petty offense?

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Question 10

What is an accessory to a crime?

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Question 11

An offense prohibited by statute but not inherently evil or wrong is called

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A)  Mala prohibita 
B)  Mala in se 
C)  Mens rea 
D)  Actus reus

Question 12

Common law is the source of petit or summary offenses.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The theory of vicarious liability finds a non-offender guilty of the offense even though the party committed no act or never intended the act to be done.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

A crime is any act or omission prohibited by public law for the protection of the public.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Civil law, when compared to criminal law, deals with personal harms.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

There are certain acts that are universally considered as deviant or errant in design and therefore prohibited by law by all societies. Which one the following does not fall into these category of crimes?

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A)  Bestiality 
B)  Incest 
C)  Political crime 
D)  Murder

Question 17

The substance of a crime that must be proven and that consists of an injury or loss and the criminal act that resulted in it is called

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A)  Mala prohibita 
B)  Mala in se 
C)  Mens rea 
D)  Actus reus

Question 18

Federal legislation enables prosecution of a corporation in order to

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A)  Impose criminal sanctions for infractions and violations committed by people who operate the corporate entity 
B)  Hold individuals responsible in place of the corporation 
C)  To only hold the corporation civilly liable for the violation 
D)  Prevent individuals from being held criminally liable for their acts within the corporate activity

Question 19

Which of the following is not a component of a crime?

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A)  The occurrence of a specific kind of injury ort loss 
B)  An expectation of illegality 
C)  Somebody's criminality, meaning a criminal act by a specific person 
D)  The accused's identity as the doer of this crime

Question 20

To what extent can a corporation be held criminally liable for violations of the corporate entity?

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Exam 2: Definitions of Crime

What are the key issues in determining if someone is a principal to a crime?

Mala in se crimes are wrong due to their cultural relativity to that which is considered prohibited by society at the time the crime is codified.

What is a principal to a crime?

Corpus delicti is the substance of a crime that consists of an injury or loss and the criminal act that resulted in it.

The legal concept of vicarious liability seeks to

Explain the term, "corpus delecti."

What influences that which governments define as crimes?

Which of the following demonstrate how one approach to defining crime is accomplished by classification by grade and severity?

What is a summary or petty offense?

What is an accessory to a crime?

An offense prohibited by statute but not inherently evil or wrong is called

Common law is the source of petit or summary offenses.

The theory of vicarious liability finds a non-offender guilty of the offense even though the party committed no act or never intended the act to be done.

A crime is any act or omission prohibited by public law for the protection of the public.

Civil law, when compared to criminal law, deals with personal harms.

There are certain acts that are universally considered as deviant or errant in design and therefore prohibited by law by all societies. Which one the following does not fall into these category of crimes?

The substance of a crime that must be proven and that consists of an injury or loss and the criminal act that resulted in it is called

Federal legislation enables prosecution of a corporation in order to

Which of the following is not a component of a crime?

To what extent can a corporation be held criminally liable for violations of the corporate entity?