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Criminal Justice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accomplice | One who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent unites with the principal offender in the commission of a crime. |
| Actus Reus | Criminal conduct specifically, intentional or criminally negligent action or inaction that causes harm. |
| Aggravated | Any circumstance attending the commission of a crime which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injuries consequences. |
| Aggravated Assault | Its an assault which criminal law punish more severely due to its seriousness. Factors raise an assault to an aggravated assault typically include the use of a weapon. the status of the victim, the intent of the perpetrator. |
| Alibi | In a criminal action, a defense that the defendant was somewhere other than the scene of the crime when the crime was committed. |
| Arson | The willful and malicious burning of someone else's dwelling house. |
| Assault | Is the act of creating apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact with a person. |
| Attempted | An offense that occurs when a person comes dangerously close to carrying out a criminal act. |
| Autopsy | A Medical examination of a corpse to determine the disease, injury, and cause of death especially in a criminal investigation. |
| battery | A criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, use of force against another resulting in harmful, offensive or sexual contact. |
| Bias Crime | A crime motivated by racial, religious, gender, sexual orientation, or other prejudice. |
| Burglary | The crime offense of breaking and entering a building illegally for the purpose of committing a crime. |
| CarJacking | the criminal offense of taking of a motor vehicle from its owner by force, or intimidation |
| Complaint | A charging document specifying that an offense has been committed by a person or persons harmed or described |
| Convicted | The act or process by which a judge or jury finds someone guilty of an offense |
| Crime | Violation of a law in which there is injury to the public and determine jail or prison |
| Criminal damage to property | A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intentionally to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless. |
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