The successful defense of "duty" to avoid criminal responsibility usually involves cases in which
A) anti-abortion activists kill abortion doctors to "save babies."
B) firefighters break and enter a home to save a small domesticated animal.
C) police officers kill a person in the line of duty.
D) politicians engage in corruption because everyone else does it.
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Q16: What is crime from a legal standpoint?
A)
Q17: A basic principle expressed in English common
Q18: Which of the following is not a
Q19: Responsibility for a crime requires that criminal
Q20: Criminal responsibility can be avoided if the
Q22: The _ defense is successfully used when
Q23: One problem with the legalistic definition of
Q24: Law is
A) the expressed will of God.
B)
Q25: In hunter-gatherer societies
A) property was communally owned.
B)
Q26: As social inequality increases, law
A) decreases.
B) increases.
C)
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