Categories Of Crime

Chapter 3 discusses the nature and purpose of criminal laws. The types of laws include: criminal law, civil law, administrative law, and case law. Categories of crime are differentiated by felonies and misdemeanors. The eight general features of crime determine if the crime was acted a certain away. The crime must consist of: actus reus, mens rea, or both. Concurrence consist of both actus reus and mens rea, which many crimes usually have. Causation, harm, legality, punishment and attendant circumstances are included with the general features of crime. Also, types of defenses give the perpetrator a way of defending themselves in court. The defenses are alibi, justification, excuse, and procedural defenses. However, justification defenses are