Criminal Law Chapter Words

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  1. actus reus
    activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  2. attainment
    the act of achieving an aim
  3. codified
    enacted by a legislative body
  4. conspiracy
    a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act
  5. contemporary
    occurring in the same period of time
  6. disclose
    expose to view as by removing a cover
  7. displeasure
    the feeling of being annoyed or dissatisfied
  8. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  9. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
  10. fundamental
    serving as an essential component
  11. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  12. infraction
    a violation of a law or rule
  13. intimidation
    the act of scaring a weaker person to make them do something
  14. jurisdiction
    the territory within which power can be exercised
  15. law
    the collection of rules imposed by authority
  16. libel
    a false and malicious publication
  17. mens rea
    criminal intent
  18. monetary
    relating to or involving money
  19. omission
    leaving out or passing over something
  20. parlay
    exploit a skill or resource in order to get something of greater value
  21. sanction
    official permission or approval
  22. subsequent
    following in time or order
  23. treason
    a crime that undermines the offender's government
  24. vagrancy
    the state of wandering from place to place
  25. perpetrator
    someone who commits wrongdoing
  26. flagellate
    whip or scourge; punish as if by whipping
  27. procession
    the act of moving forward, as toward a goal
  28. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  29. imminent
    close in time; about to occur
  30. circumscribe
    draw a geometric figure around another figure
  31. consensual
    involving or existing by mutual agreement
  32. duress
    compulsory force or threat
  33. sustain
    lengthen or extend in duration or space
  34. typology
    classification according to general category or kind
  35. irresistible
    impossible to withstand; overpowering
  36. compulsion
    using force to cause something to occur
  37. vague
    lacking clarity or distinctness
  38. insanity
    relatively permanent disorder of the mind
  39. coercion
    using force to cause something to occur
  40. hostile
    characterized by enmity or ill will
  41. initiate
    set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for
  42. asphyxia
    a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
  43. bondage
    the state of being under the control of another person
  44. remorseful
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  45. provision
    the activity of supplying something
  46. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  47. inhibition
    the action of forbidding
  48. epileptic
    a person who has a common seizure disorder
  49. provocation
    a means of arousing or stirring to action
  50. vindication
    the act of defending against criticism or censure
  51. delusion
    a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea
  52. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
  53. incompetence
    lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
  54. conception
    the creation of something in the mind
  55. jumble
    assemble without order or sense
  56. acquitted
    declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime
  57. diminished
    made to seem smaller or less, especially in worth
  58. deem
    judge or regard in a particular way
  59. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  60. languish
    become feeble
  61. parish
    a local church community
  62. indeterminably
    in an indeterminable manner
  63. unduly
    to an unnecessary degree
  64. extradite
    hand over to the authorities of another country
  65. scrutiny
    the act of examining something closely, as for mistakes
Created on Fri Jul 02 20:36:07 EDT 2010 (updated Tue Jul 06 20:43:27 EDT 2010)

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