Crimes Against Property | Historical Foundations | Modern Legal History | Crimes Against People | Criminal Law, United Nations |
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What is Identity Theft
Using someone's information to steal from them.
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What is retributive justice.
It is criminal sentence focused on punishment.
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What is precedent
A legal decision that sets the standard for similar cases in the future.
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Homicide
Directly or indirectly causing the death of another human being
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What is INTERPOL.
The International Police organization responsible for brining large scale crimes to justice.
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What is Grand Theft
Theft over $5000.
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What is the Magna Carta
The laws
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What is the Magna Carta
It was a document signed by "good" King John of England that modernized the rights of citizens by Royal decree.
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Non-culpable homicide
Killing for which someone is not held accountable legally responsible.
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Double Jeopardy
A person cannot be tried for the same crime, twice.
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What is armed robbery
Using a weapon while committing a robbery.
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What is a jury.
A system by which
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What is the Adversarial system.
A .legal system based on two opposing sides arguing their cases in front of an impartial judge
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Provocation
Words or actions that might provoke a person to lose control and act impulsively.
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What is the Supreme Court of Canada
It is the highest court in Canada.
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What is Trafficking
Transporting a large amount of illegal drugs for the purpose of sale.
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What is the twelve tables
One of first legal codes in Roman law.
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What is the Napoleonic Code
It was the French civil code enacted by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804
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manslaughter
Defined as any culpable homicide that is not classified as murder or infanticide
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What are war crime
Crimes that go against the rules of engagement in war - ie. destroying places of worship, bombing schools, hospitals and engaging in the killing of non combatants in war.
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What is money laundering
Taking "dirty" money and investing it in legitimate ways like buying real estate.
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What is Justinian's Code.
A compilation of Roman law commissioned by Emperor Justinian I.
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What is the Great Binding Law
The recording of aboriginal oral laws of the Iroquois Confederacy of the 15th Century.
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What is Perpetrator
A person who commits a criminal offence
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UN Declaration of Human Rights
The International agreement that protects individual rights and freedoms at a basic level.
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laundering proceeds of crime
Leonard, Howard, and Sheldon have been making money as bookies.
They have accumulated about $200,000 in cash. They decide to start a ‘dummy company’ called Fizzicks Roolz Inc. where they deposit their illegal money, and make it look legitimate. What crime are they committing? |