Law Chapter 3

A crime is an offense against the public good.

• True

• False

Motive plays no part in proving criminal liability.

• True

• False

A person claiming self-defense must retreat before resorting to force unless the attacker is coming into their house.

• True

• False

Burglary is the wrongful and violent taking of personal property.

• True

• False

The unlawful killing of one human being by another, without malice or aforethought, is

• justifiable homicide

• 1st degree murder

• 2nd degree murder

• manslaughter

If a law enforcement officer induces a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime, the accused may claim

• self-defense

• entrapment

• endangerment

• insanity

Threatening a person at gunpoint is called

• assault

• torture

• larceny

• kidnapping

The wrongful taking of another's property by a person who has been entrusted with that property is

• extortion

• robbery

• larceny

• embezzlement

The person being tried for a crime is the ____________________.

• prosecutor

• defendant

The removal or restraint of a person against that person's will is ____________________.

• assault

• battery

• kidnapping

• larceny