LE 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Model Penal Code, Victimless Crime, Lesser Included Offense
14 Dec 2016
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Crime: an activity that has been prohibited by the legislature as violating a duty owed to society, prosecuted by the government, with the possibility of punishment of a fine, imprisonment, or even death. Criminal law defines for society what behaviors are illegal. Arson: the malicious burning if the house of another. Modern statues of have generally enlarged the definition to include the burning of any structure not just dwellings and to include the arsonist"s own home if the intent was to collect on an insurance policy. Battery: wrongful physical contact with a person that entails some injury or offensive touching. Assault: conduct that places another person in reasonable apprehensions of receiving a battery. Kidnapping: similar to the tort of false imprisonment in that it involves unlawful confinement. Robbery: is a theft of personal property in circumstances that involve either the infliction of serious bodily injury or the threat of such injury.
