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👨‍⚖️Criminal Law
Key Terms

346 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Criminal Law exam

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A

Abandonment Defense in Attempts
Abolitionist Perspective
Accomplice Liability
Actual cause
Actual Possession
Adjudication Hearing
Administrative search
Affirmative act
Affirmative Assertion Requirement
Affirmative Consent
Affirmative Defense
Age of Defendant
Age of responsibility
Aggravating Factors
Aggravating Factors in Fraud Sentencing
Aiding and Abetting
Alcohol Impairment
Alternatives to incarceration
Armed robbery
Arraignment
Arson Investigator
Asportation Requirement
Asset forfeiture
Atkins v. Virginia
Attempted Murder
Attendant Circumstances

B

Bail
Battered Woman Syndrome
Battered Woman Syndrome vs Self-Defense
Bench trial
Biosocial criminology
Breach of trust
Breaking and entering
Bribery Act 2010
Brown v. Mississippi
Burden of Proof
Burden of Proof in Self-Defense Cases
Burden on Defendant
Burden on Prosecution
Burglary vs. Robbery
Burglary vs. Trespass

C

Carrying Away
Castle Doctrine
Causation in Murder
Challenges for cause
Charge bargaining
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Child Kidnapping
Citizen's arrest
Civil commitment of sex offenders
Civil penalties
Claim of right
Clemency and Commutation
Coercive Control
Cognitive-behavioral interventions
Commercial bribery
Community policing
Compelling Prostitution
Competence
Competency Assessment
Competency to Stand Trial
Compliance Programs
Consent as a defense to fraud
Consequences of Imperfect Self-Defense
Conspiracy to Commit Murder
Constitutional challenges
Constructive breaking
Constructive Possession
Contemporary community standards
Controlled Substances
Controlled Substances Act
Course of conduct
Credible Threat
Criminal Charges
Criminal liability