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Unit 2-1
General Provisions
8
Library Information Skills
Professional
10/09/2014

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Term
Define crime.
Definition
• Any act that the law makes punishable
Term
Explain the four culpable mental states.
Definition
• Purposely – Specific intention to cause a certain result; or when the offense is a prohibition against certain conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the offender intends to accomplish, it is the offender’s specific intention to engage in the conduct
• Knowingly – Aware that conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature, regardless of purpose
• Recklessly – With heedless indifference to the consequences, perversely disregard a known risk that conduct is likely to cause a certain result
• Negligently – Because of substantial lapse from due care, fails to perceive or avoid a risk that conduct may cause a certain result
Term
Define Jurisdiction
Definition
• A government’s general power to exercise authority over all persons and things within its territory
Term
Describe the difference between statutory law and case law
Definition
• Statutory Law – the body of law derived from statutes rather than from constitutions or judicial decisions
• Case Law – the law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction
Term
Define Force
Definition
• Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing
Term
Define Deadly Force
Definition
• Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will proximately result in the death of any person
Term
Differentiate between physical harm to persons and serious physical harm to persons.
Definition
• Physical Harm to Persons – any injury, illness or other physiological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration
• Serious Physical Harm to Persons
• Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment
• Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total or that involves some temporary, substantial incapacity
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some temporary, serious disfigurement
• Any physical harm that involves acute (i.e., severe) pain of such duration as to result in substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain
Term
Differentiate between physical harm to property and serious physical harm to property.
Definition
• Physical Harm to Property – any tangible or intangible damage to property that, in any degree, results in loss to its value or interferes with its use or enjoyment
• Serious Physical Harm to Property – any physical harm to property that does either of the following:
o Results in substantial loss to the value of the property or requires a substantial amount of time, effort or money to repair or replace
o Temporarily prevents the use or enjoyment of the property or substantially interferes with its use or enjoyment for an extended period of time
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