Criminal Law Final

Final exam

Assault

Fear of harm | Attempted or threatened battery. A willful attempt or willful threat to inflict injury on another person. Also, the act of intentionally frightening another person into fearing immediate bodily harm.

Battery

Harmful touching | Unlawful physical violence inflicted on another without his consent. An intentionally frightening another person into fearing immediate bodily harm.

Larceny

Taking property (no force) | the trespassory or wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal property of another with intent to steal.

Burglary

Entering to commit a crime | The breaking of a building, locked automobile, boat, and so on, with the intent to commit a felony or theft. Also, the entering of a structure for the purposes of committing a felony or theft.

Embezzelment

Taking money you were trusted with

Perjury

lying under oath | The willful giving of false testimony under oath in a judicial proceeding. Also, false testimony given under any lawfully administered oath.

Obstruction

Interfering with policing/court | An unlawful attempt to interfere with the administration of the court, the judicial system, or law enforcement officers, or with the activities of those who seek justice in a court or whose duties involve the administration of justice.

Disorderly Conduct

Public disturbance | Specific, purposeful, and unlawful behavior that tends to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm

Prostitution

Selling Sex | The offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire. Also, the offering or receiving of the body for indiscriminate sexual purposes without hire.

Obscenity

Offensive material → bestiality | That which appeals to the prurient interest and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

Identity Theft

Using someone’s info | The unauthorized use of another individual’s personal identity to fraudulently obtain money, goods, or services; to avoid the payment of debt; or to avoid criminal prosecution.

Cybercrime

hacking/ computer crimes

Fraud

Tricking someone for money

Terrorism

Violence to scare people | The commission of a traditional crime, such as murder, with the intention of coercing a population or influencing a government through fear or intimidation.

Human Trafficking

Forcing labor or sex

Retribution

Punish | The act of taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator. The most punishment-oriented of all sentencing goals, retribution claims that we are justified in punishing offenders because they deserve it.

Deterrence

Prevent | a goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent others from committing crimes similar to the one for which an offender is being sentenced.

Incapacitation

Remove | The use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood that an offender will be capable of committing future offenses.

Rehabilitation

Change | The attempt to reform a criminal offender. Also, the state in which a reformed offender is said to be.

Embezzlement

Trust violation | The misappropriation of property already in the possession of the defendant. Also, the unlawful conversion of personal property of another by a person to whom it has been entrusted by or for its rightful owner.

Robbery

The unlawful taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another by force or by threat of force.