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Collaborative Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cognition | the capacity to tell right from wrong |
| irresistable impulse test | taking a mental disease or defect and not being able to bring actions into what they know as right or wrong |
| right and test | McNaugton |
| product of mental illness test | Durham |
| substantial capacity test | mpc test |
| waiver to adult criminal court | when juvenile court gives up jurisdiction over the case and sends it to adult criminal court |
| objective test of entrapment | if the intent to commit the crime orginiates with the defendant |
| complicity | when you can be criminally liable for someone ele's conduct |
| forfeited perssonal identity theory | when choose to participate in a crime you forfeit your right to be treated as an individual |
| accomplices | participants before and during the crime |
| accessory | participants before the crime |
| pinkon rule | crime of comspriacy and the crime conspirators agree to commit are seperate offenses |
| resondeat superior | doctraine that makes a master liable for the wrong of a servant |
| inchoate crimes | from the latin"to begin" having the mens rea and actus reus but doesnt complete the crime |
| attempt mens rea | specific intent to commit the crime |
| attempt actus reus | taking the steps towards committing a crime |
| res ipsa loquter | act speaks for itself |
| conspiracy | crime of agreeing with one or more perosns to commit a crime |
| rico act | imposes enhanced penalties for all types of organized criminal behavior from simple political crime to mafia-like behavior |