NYPD TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
LEARNING GUIDE
●● Infancy
Answer: Defendant is not criminally liable due to their age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are juvenile
offenders)
- 16 or older: charged as adults.
●● Entrapment
Answer: Occurs when a defendant is actively induced, encouraged, or
lured by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
●● Elements of an offense
Answer: Written law - defining the offense
Act - constituting the external physical part of a crime committed by the
offender.
Mental element - the offender's state of mind toward the act.
Result - injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship - between the unlawful act, the result, and the
underlying mental element.
,●● Attempt to commit a crime.
Answer: A change of attempt to commit a crime will reduce the charge
by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
●● Attempt
Answer: Engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of
such crime.
●● Forcible Touching (M)
Answer: intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, squeezes, grabs or
pinches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person.
●● Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance (F)
Answer: Knowingly give victim substance without consent.
Intent to commit felony sex offense.
●● Lack of consent.
Answer: Mentally disabled
Mentally incapacitated
Physically helpless
Forcible compulsion
,underage
office of children and family services
health/mental health care provider
correctional facility
vulnerable person
●● Sexual abuse (M)
Answer: a person subjects another person to sexual contact:
victim is over 10 but less than 17 yrs old
victim is incapable of consent for reasons other than age (mentally
disabled or incapacitated)
without consent
●● Sexual abuse (F)
Answer: a person subjects another person to sexual contact:
by forcible compulsion
victim physically helpless
victim is less than 11 yrs old
victim is less than 13 yrs old and the actor is 21 or older.
●● Aggravated Sexual Abuse (F)
Answer: when a person insert:
, a foreign object (whether or not causing physical injury) or
a finger (causing PI or SPI) into another person's
"PURV"
Penis
Urethra
Rectum
Vagina without consent.
●● Accessorial conduct
Answer: acting with the mental culpability for the commission of an
offense.
Directs or aids another person to engage in an offense.
"acting in concert"
Individuals acting with the same mental state are both guilty of an
offense.
●● Statute of limitations
Answer: class a and certain b felonies = no time limit
certain class b and c,d,e felony = 5 years
misdemeanor = 2 yrs
petty offense = 1 yr
●● Purpose of the penal law
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
LEARNING GUIDE
●● Infancy
Answer: Defendant is not criminally liable due to their age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are juvenile
offenders)
- 16 or older: charged as adults.
●● Entrapment
Answer: Occurs when a defendant is actively induced, encouraged, or
lured by a public servant to commit an illegal act.
●● Elements of an offense
Answer: Written law - defining the offense
Act - constituting the external physical part of a crime committed by the
offender.
Mental element - the offender's state of mind toward the act.
Result - injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship - between the unlawful act, the result, and the
underlying mental element.
,●● Attempt to commit a crime.
Answer: A change of attempt to commit a crime will reduce the charge
by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
●● Attempt
Answer: Engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of
such crime.
●● Forcible Touching (M)
Answer: intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, squeezes, grabs or
pinches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person.
●● Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance (F)
Answer: Knowingly give victim substance without consent.
Intent to commit felony sex offense.
●● Lack of consent.
Answer: Mentally disabled
Mentally incapacitated
Physically helpless
Forcible compulsion
,underage
office of children and family services
health/mental health care provider
correctional facility
vulnerable person
●● Sexual abuse (M)
Answer: a person subjects another person to sexual contact:
victim is over 10 but less than 17 yrs old
victim is incapable of consent for reasons other than age (mentally
disabled or incapacitated)
without consent
●● Sexual abuse (F)
Answer: a person subjects another person to sexual contact:
by forcible compulsion
victim physically helpless
victim is less than 11 yrs old
victim is less than 13 yrs old and the actor is 21 or older.
●● Aggravated Sexual Abuse (F)
Answer: when a person insert:
, a foreign object (whether or not causing physical injury) or
a finger (causing PI or SPI) into another person's
"PURV"
Penis
Urethra
Rectum
Vagina without consent.
●● Accessorial conduct
Answer: acting with the mental culpability for the commission of an
offense.
Directs or aids another person to engage in an offense.
"acting in concert"
Individuals acting with the same mental state are both guilty of an
offense.
●● Statute of limitations
Answer: class a and certain b felonies = no time limit
certain class b and c,d,e felony = 5 years
misdemeanor = 2 yrs
petty offense = 1 yr
●● Purpose of the penal law
