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Criminal Law

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What are felonies against persons? The core offenses of murder, manslaughter, rape, kidnapping, and robbery.
What are felonies against property? The core offenses of felonious theft, robbery, arson, and burglary.
What are private wrongs for which you can sue the part who wronged you and recovery money. Torts
What are offenses that require some level of criminal intent? Mala in se
What are offenses that are crimes only because a specific statute or ordinance prohibits them? Mala prohibita
What is criminal law created by elected representatives in state legislatures? State criminal code
What is a right that bans “all governmental invasions of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life” Constitutional right to privacy
What is the name for punishments considered no longer acceptable to civilized society? Barbaric punishments
What describes the punishment has to fit the crime? Principle of proportionality
What is the principle of criminal liability that requires that a criminal intent has to trigger the criminal act? Concurrence
What is conduct that causes another person's death? Criminal homocide
What is principle of concurrence? Some mental fault has to trigger the criminal act in conduct crimes and the cause in result crimes
What is causation? Holding an actor criminally account- able for the results of her conduct
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