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CJS chp 3
Terms on Chapter 3
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
09/12/2015

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Legal Responsibility
Definition
The individual's accountability for a crime.
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Civil Law
Definition
A category of law that oversees business deals, contracts, real estate and others.
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Substantive Criminal Law
Definition
Defines actions that the government can punish.  Also called the "penal code."
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Procedural Criminal Law
Definition
Defines the rules of how the law(s) will be enacted.
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Inchoate/Incomplete Offenses
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Lawbreakers that do not finish the crime.
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7 Principles of Criminal Law
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(1) Legality: It is not illegal unless there is a law that prohibits it, and it is not illegal if the law was made before the act was committed.

(2) Actus Reus: Must be an act of commission or omission by the accused.

(3) Causation: There must be a relatioship between the act and the harm suffered.

(4) Harm: An act must cause harm to some legally protected value.

(5) Concurence: The intent and the act must be present at the same time.

(6) Mens Rea: An act is not a crime unless it is accompanied by a guilty state of mind.

(7) Punisment: Provision in the law calling for punishment of the accused.

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