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Match Each Word with the Appropriate Definition or Description

Question 64

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Match each word with the appropriate definition or description.

Premises:

Responses:

Direct intent

The intent to commit an act to achieve a specific criminal result.

Transferred intent

Include intent (even transferred and oblique intent), knowledge, willfulness, negligence, recklessness, and malice.

General intent

A type of mens rea or criminal intent in which the defendant unconsciously creates a risk of harm and does not act like a reasonable person under the circumstances.

Oblique intent

Intent in which the consequences of a person's actions are desired, but should have reasonably been foreseen.

Negligence

Latin for guilty mind.

Common mens rea

Intent in which the consequences of a person's actions are desired.

Statutory mens rea

The intent to commit the actus reus or criminal act of the crime only.

Specific intent

Is concerned with culpability, or an offender's level of blameworthiness for a crime.

Mens rea

Is the level of intent required by a specific statute, possibly independent of any notion of morality.

Traditional mens rea

The defendant's intent to harm one person is transferred to the actual victim of the crime.

Premises:

Direct intent

Transferred intent

General intent

Oblique intent

Negligence

Common mens rea

Statutory mens rea

Specific intent

Mens rea

Traditional mens rea

Responses:

The intent to commit an act to achieve a specific criminal result.

Include intent (even transferred and oblique intent), knowledge, willfulness, negligence, recklessness, and malice.

A type of mens rea or criminal intent in which the defendant unconsciously creates a risk of harm and does not act like a reasonable person under the circumstances.

Intent in which the consequences of a person's actions are desired, but should have reasonably been foreseen.

Latin for guilty mind.

Intent in which the consequences of a person's actions are desired.

The intent to commit the actus reus or criminal act of the crime only.

Is concerned with culpability, or an offender's level of blameworthiness for a crime.

Is the level of intent required by a specific statute, possibly independent of any notion of morality.

The defendant's intent to harm one person is transferred to the actual victim of the crime.

Correct Answer:

Premises:

Responses:

Direct intent

Transferred intent