GLOSSARY OF CRIMINOLOGY

1. Law
The collection of rules imposed by authority

2. Excuse
A defense of some offensive behavior

3. Motive
The reason that arouses action toward a desired goal

4. Elements
Violent or severe weather

5. Defense
The act of defending someone or something against attack

6. Fraud
Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

7. Conspiracy
A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act

8. Treason
A crime that undermines the offender's government
9. Offense
A failure to show regard for others

10. Precedent
An example that is used to justify similar occurrences

11. Justification
The act of defending or explaining by reasoning

12. Negligent
Characterized by undue lack of attention or concern

13. Mitigate
Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

14. Incompetent
Not qualified or suited for a purpose

15. Inducement
A positive motivational influence

16. Conflagration
A very intense and uncontrolled fire

17. Common Law

A law established by following earlier judicial decisions
18. Felony
A serious crime, such as murder or arson

19. Collateral
Accompanying; following as a consequence

20. Concurrence
The property of two things happening at the same time

21. Espionage
The systematic use of spies to obtain secrets

22. Jurisprudence
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law

23. Substantive
Having a firm basis in reality and therefore important

24. Civil Law

The legal code of ancient Rome

25. Lewd
Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

26. Culpable
Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious
27. Misdemeanor
A crime less serious than a felony

28. Self-Defense
The act of defending yourself

29. Alibi
Proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it

30. Infraction
A crime less serious than a felony

31. Criminal Law

The body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

32. Lascivious
Driven by lust

33. Rule Of Law

A state of order in which events conform to the law

34. Penal Code

The legal code governing crimes and their punishment

35. Tort
A wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
36. Islamic Law
The code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of
Mohammed

37. Alter Ego

A very close friend who seems almost a part of yourself

38. Vagrancy
The state of wandering from place to place

39. Inchoate
Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

40. Duress
Compulsory force or threat

41. Ex Post Facto

Affecting things past

42. Administrative Law

The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by
administrative agencies of government

43. Case Law

A law established by following earlier judicial decisions

44. Criminal Negligence

(Law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at
risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
45. Corpus Delicti
The body of evidence that constitute the offence

46. Double Jeopardy

The prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already
been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution

47. Statutory Law

The body of laws created by legislative statutes

48. Estoppel
A rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that
has already been settled

49. Mens Rea

Criminal intent

50. Tazir Crime

Minor crimes committed by Muslims

51. Actus Reus

Activity that transgresses moral or civil law