Exam 4: The General Principles of Criminal Liability: Mens Rea, Concurrence, Ignorance, and Mistake

What term is about holding an actor criminally accountable for the results of her conduct?​

The element of causation applies only to "bad result" crimes.​

Which of the following is not a type of culpability in the Model Penal Code (MPC)?​

Ignorance of facts and law can create a reasonable doubt that the prosecution has proved the element of criminal intent.

​The mental element of a crime is called the

The ignorance maxim means that everyone is presumed to know the law.​

Case 4.4 Terrance is showing Manuel his gun collection. Manuel has never before handled a gun. He reluctantly takes a gun from Terrance and asks him if he is sure that the gun is unloaded. Terrance replies that he never puts ammunition in his guns except at the gun range where he goes to practice. Manuel points the gun out the window of the house and pulls the trigger. The gun fires, and a woman walking by on the sidewalk is shot and killed. -​Manuel's defense involves the prosecution's failure to prove what beyond a reasonable doubt?

Which kind of fault requires no purposeful or conscious bad mind in the actor?​

What are strict liability crimes? What are some of the arguments for and against such crimes? Do you think there should or should not be strict liability crimes? Explain your position.​

Discuss what is required for mistake to be a defense.How does this relate to the types of culpability in the Model Penal Code? Be sure to discuss the debate over whether to call mistakes a defense.

The most common definition of specific intent is​

Criminal liability is sometimes imposed without fault.​

What is the principle of concurrence? Why is the principle of concurrence important to criminal liability? Provide an example of a criminal situation and how concurrence applies to that situation.

General intent is used most commonly to mean the intent to commit the criminal act as defined in a statute.​

The Model Penal Code (MPC)breaks down mens rea into four mental states-purpose,knowledge,recklessness,and negligence.​

Fault that requires no purposeful or conscious bad mind in the actor is​

​Conscious risk creation involves the level of culpability called

​Which of the following cases involves the mental state "purposely"?

What are the four types of culpability in the Model Penal Code? Be sure to provide examples.What are the levels of culpability of each relative to the other?

From the work of Plato to the present-day courts,criminal intent has been recognized and reaffirmed as the criminal law's​