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Act ✔Correct Answer-includes a failure or omission to take action. (720 ILCS 5/2-2)

Conduct ✔Correct Answer-An act or a series of acts, and the accompanying mental state.
(5/2-4)

Dwelling ✔Correct Answer-An enclosed space used or intended for use as a human
habitation, home, or residence.

Ex: tent, mobile home, vehicle, house, apartment , trailer.

Felony ✔Correct Answer-An offense punishable by one year or more in a penitentiary.

Forcible Felony ✔Correct Answer-The most serious of crimes.

Includes:
1. murder
2. Agg. Battery: with great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement.
3. Agg. Criminal sexual assault
4. Predatory criminal sexual assault of a child
5. Kidnapping, Agg. Kidnapping
6. Burglary, Residential Burglary
7. Arson, Agg. Arson
8. Robbery
9. Treason

And any other felony which involves use of threat of physical force or violence against an
individual.

Misdemeanor ✔Correct Answer-Any offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment
in other than a penitentiary for LESS than one year may be imposed.

Petty Offense ✔Correct Answer-An offense which is not punishable by imprisonment.

Offense ✔Correct Answer-Violation of any penal statute of this state. (each state has own
criminal code)

Peace Officer ✔Correct Answer-1. Any person who by virtue of his or her public office or
employment is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for
offenses.

,2. Any person who by statute, is granted and authorized to exercise powers similar to those
conferred upon. (employed by law enforcement agency of this state)
ex: university police

Penal Institution ✔Correct Answer-Includes a penitentiary, state farm, reformatory, prison,
jail, house of correction, or other institution for the incarceration or custody of persons under
sentence for offenses awaiting trial or sentence for offenses.

Reasonable Belief ✔Correct Answer-Means that person concerned, acting as a reasonable
person, believes that the described facts exist. ("totality of the facts")

Voluntary Act ✔Correct Answer-A material element of every offense is a voluntary act, which
includes an omission to perform a duty which the law imposes on the offender and which he is
physically capable of performing.

Posession as a Voluntary Act ✔Correct Answer-If the offender knowingly procured or received
the thing posessed, or was aware of his control thereof for a sufficient time to have been able to
terminate his posession.

Place of Trial ✔Correct Answer-(a) Generally. Criminal offenses in Illinois shall be tried in the
county where the offense occurred, except otherwise provided by law.

Presumption of Innocence and proof of guilt ✔Correct Answer-Every person is presumed
innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

General Limitations ✔Correct Answer-Limits the time period within which the state must
commence prosecution.
a. For certain offenses there is no time limit (ex: homicide, treason, arson, agg. arson, and
forgery)
b. Generally, prosecution for a felony must be commenced within 3 YEARS.
c. Generally, prosecution for a misdemeanor must be commenced within one year and 6
months after its comission.

Methods of Prosecution ✔Correct Answer-When authorized by law a prosecution may be
commenced by:
a. complaint
b. information
c. indictment

Mental State ✔Correct Answer-State of mind under which the act was committed.
a. intent
b. knowledge
c. recklessness

, d. negligence

An act does not make the doer guilty, unless the mind is guilty.

Result ✔Correct Answer-Effect or commission of the act accompanied by the criminal mental
element.

The nature of this injury often determinative of the crime charged.

Elements of a Crime ✔Correct Answer-a. A voluntary act
b. A mental state
c. A result

Intent ✔Correct Answer-When his or her conscious objective or purpose is to accomplish that
result or engage in that conduct.

Knowledge ✔Correct Answer-When he or she is consciously aware of the nature or result of
his conduct.

Recklessness ✔Correct Answer-When he or she consciously disregards a substantial and
unjustifiable risk.

Negligence ✔Correct Answer-When he or she fails to be aware of a substantial and
unjustifiable risk.

Absolute Liability ✔Correct Answer-A person may be guilty of an offense without having one
of the mental states if the offense is a misdemeanor which is not punishable by incarceration or
by a fine exceeding $1000.

Accountability for conduct of another ✔Correct Answer-A person is responsible for conduct
which is an element of an offense if the conduct is either that of the person himself, or that of
another and he is legally accountable for such conduct.

Exists when a person:
a. Participates BEFORE the crime, with specific intent to promote or facilitate an offense.
b. Participates AFTER the crime.
c. With the intent that the offense be committed, solicits, aids, abets, agrees or attempts to aid
a person in the planning or commission of an offense.

Affirmative Defenses ✔Correct Answer-When he or she argues that, because of the existence
of factors, his or her conduct should be excused or not punished.

Law provides that certain circumstances create possible defenses. (must present evidence).

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