Law I - Chapter 3 - Criminal Law

A crime is an offense against the public good.

• True
• False

Motive plays no part in proving criminal liability.

• True
• False

Any killing that takes place during a felony is murder.

• True
• False

Robbery is the wrongful and violent taking of personal property.

• True
• False

The unlawful killing of one human being by another, without malice or aforethought, is

• justifiable homicide
• first degree murder
• second degree murder
• manslaughter

In a criminal proceeding, the government is referred to as the 

• defendant
• offender
• plaintiff
• protagonist

A father who uses force to save his child from an attack may claim __________.

• self defense
• defense of a family member
• child abuse
• extortion

If a law enforcement officer induces a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime, the accused may claim

• self-defense
• entrapment
• endangerment
• insanity

Threatening a person at gunpoint is called

• kidnapping
• aggravated assault
• torture
• larceny by false pretenses

The wrongful taking of another's property by a person who has been entrusted with that property is

• extortion
• robbery
• larceny
• embezzlement