Q&A Hero

Q: Explain why intellectual property needs protection. Describe some of the methods used to commit cybercrimes.

Q: Discuss elements currently required to prove burglary.

Q: Discuss the crime of receiving stolen property. What are the mens rea and actus reus of receiving stolen property? What is the purpose of the requirement that receivers have to intend to keep the property permanently?

Q: Explain the federal mail fraud statute. Describe how the statute has added to civil actions. Should persons who are not convicted of federal mail fraud have to forfeit their property?

Q: Discuss and define the crimes of arson and criminal mischief.

Q: Discuss, compare, and contrast larceny, embezzlement, and false pretenses.

Q: Discuss some of the new ways that computers and the internet have made it possible for criminals to commit old crimes. Provide examples of how the law has changed to accommodate these new forms of old crimes.

Q: Discuss, compare, and contrast contemporary burglary and criminal trespass. Be sure to provide examples.

Q: Compare and contrast common law burglary with typical current burglary statutes. Be sure to provide examples.

Q: Computer crime often involves ____________ property.

Q: ____________ generally do not affect network performance, as their malicious activities are mostly confined within the target computer itself.

Q: The heart of the crime of criminal trespass is ____________ another person's property.

Q: It's illegal to receive stolen property only if you intend to keep it ____________.

Q: Robbery involves taking property through the use of force or the ____________ of force.

Q: In order to improve the law of theft, many states have passed ____________ theft statutes.

Q: The form of theft involving deceit is called false ____________.

Q: Legislatures responded to this problem of unlawful conversion of property by creating the felony of ____________.

Q: A whole new vocabulary has grown up to describe the ways hackers commit ____________

Q: Larceny, robbery, embezzlement, and false pretense are all ____________ crimes.

Q: Intellectual property definitely needs protection, but less today than in the past.

Q: The heart of criminal trespass is unwanted theft.

Q: Arson is a misdemeanor and an example of a "damaging or destroying" property crime.

Q: All states require that receivers of stolen property have to know the goods are stolen.

Q: Receiving stolen property requires that the receiver control the property.

Q: The heart of robbery is the use of actual or threatened force to obtain someone else's property right now.

Q: The federal mail fraud statute defines "false pretenses" much more narrowly than common law fraud.

Q: Consolidated theft statutes eliminate the artificial need to separate theft into distinct offenses according to the mens rea.

Q: The different "taking" property crimes are larceny, criminal mischief, false pretenses and robbery.

Q: There are four categories of crimes against property.

Q: Identity theft is the crime committed most often in the United States

Q: The Model Penal Code created three degrees of criminal trespass.

Q: Burglary and arson are both crimes against persons.

Q: Trespass used to be limited to unauthorized invasions of physical property.

Q: Criminal trespass is a narrower crime than burglary.

Q: Despite the broad scope of burglary statutes the offense never invites injustices.

Q: In some jurisdictions, the entering element of burglary has been supplemented by a surreptitious remaining element.

Q: The first nonconsensual, non-violent taking felony was larceny.

Q: For common law burglary, a circumstance element was that the crime occurred at night.

Q: In many states, there is more than one type or degree of burglary.

Q: Because burglary is defined so broadly, many states divide it into several degrees.

Q: Burglary is a strict liability crime.

Q: Cybercrimes are really new ways to commit the three ancient kinds of property crimes: taking, damaging or destroying, and invading.

Q: The definition of burglary today is broader than the common law definition.

Q: Burglary is a specific-intent crime.

Q: Receiving stolen property is a crime that applies only to those who sell stolen property for profit.

Q: All states have repealed offenses involving receipt of stolen property.

Q: Common law false pretenses mens rea requires the purpose or specific intent to obtain property by deceit and lies.

Q: Since the early 1970s, violence in the family has been transformed from a private concern to a criminal justice problem. Explain how the law of assault and battery affects the definition and application of domestic violence. Cite examples.

Q: Statutory rape is to have carnal knowledge of a person under the age of consent whether or not accomplished by force. Discuss how immaturity replaces force in the case of statutory rape and what it means to say that statutory rape is a strict liability crime in most states.

Q: What is the essential difference between assault and battery? Discuss the mens rea and actus reus of each.

Q: What are the different exceptions to the force and resistance rule? How are they different?

Q: Discuss the similarities and differences between aggravated rape and unarmed acquaintance rape. Why does the criminal justice system deal with aggravated rape better than it does with unarmed acquaintance rape? Discuss what the criminal justice system could do to better address the problem of unarmed acquaintance rape.

Q: How has the law of rape and rape prosecutions changed over the years?

Q: Explain the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic force in regards to rape actus reus. Discuss the importance of the facts in each case in applying the extrinsic and intrinsic force requirements to acquaintance rape.

Q: Over time, how has the law of rape changed with regard to force and consent?

Q: Discuss the crime of stalking and stalking laws. Be sure to include how stalking first became a crime, the actus reus of stalking and how stalking statutes vary.

Q: Discuss, compare, and contrast kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Q: Crimes against persons boil down to four types: taking a life; unwanted sexual invasions; bodily injury; and personal ____________.

Q: Kidnapping and false imprisonment violate the right of ____________.

Q: Simple assaults are generally classified as ____________.

Q: In a few jurisdictions, mistake of fact with regard to the victim's ____________ is a defense to statutory rape.

Q: The only two sex offenses at common law were rape and ____________.

Q: ____________ violence crimes since the early 1970s have been transformed from a private concern to a criminal justice problem.

Q: The ____________ standard in a sexual assault case requires force in addition to the force needed to accomplish penetration.

Q: Rape ____________ statutes limit defense evidence about a rape victim's past.

Q: From the 1800s until the 1950s, the utmost ____________ standardprevailed.

Q: Voluntary and knowing ____________ sexual behavior between two adults is legal, healthy and desired.

Q: Currently, the punishment for simple rape is death.

Q: Aggravated rape is rape by strangers or individuals with weapons who physically injure their victims.

Q: False imprisonment is a specific-intent crime.

Q: Courts today have adopted three definitions of "force" for the crime of rape.

Q: In some cases, rape can be accomplished without any extrinsic force.

Q: Regarding statutory rape, only Alaska and California allow for mistake of age as a defense.

Q: An assault is complete before the offender touches the victim.

Q: Violence in intimate relationships is limited to one socioeconomic group.

Q: The crime of stalking does not require physical injury.

Q: Most states allow the defense of reasonable mistake of age in statutory rape cases.

Q: Domestic violence crimes have always been a criminal justice problem.

Q: The intrinsic force standard requires more force than the extrinsic force standard.

Q: Assault and battery are the same crime.