Criminal law worksheet with answers

An attempt to commit a crime means:

1. ACommitting the full offence
2. BPlanning a crime in detail and buying the equipment needed later to commit it
3. CTalking to a friend about a crime
4. DDoing more than merely preparatory acts with intent to commit the offence

An omission (failure to act) can lead to criminal liability when:

1. AThe defendant was asleep
2. BAny person failed to help a stranger
3. CNever, in any legal system
4. DThe defendant had a legal duty to act

In England and Wales, which body decides on charges in most serious cases and conducts public prosecutions?

1. AThe Law Commission
2. BThe Crown Prosecution Service
3. CThe Magistrates' Association
4. DThe Home Office

During a burglary, D has handed a knife to an accomplice. When someone arrives, D says "come on, let's go" and climbs out; the accomplice stabs the person. Following R v Becerra, D's withdrawal is:

1. AEffective, because D left before the crime was completed
2. BEffective, because any words of withdrawal are always enough
3. CNot effective, because withdrawal must be timely and unequivocal and may need more than words once violence is imminent
4. DIrrelevant, because once an accessory has supplied a weapon, no later act of withdrawal can ever relieve them of liability

Causation in criminal law requires that the defendant's act was:

1. AMorally wrong
2. BIntended to cause the result in every case
3. CThe only cause of the result
4. DA factual and legal cause of the result

The "thin skull" rule in criminal law means:

1. AA frail victim breaks the chain of causation
2. BThe victim's injuries must be foreseeable in extent
3. COnly healthy victims are protected
4. DThe defendant must take the victim as they find them

In R v Roberts (1971), a woman jumped from a moving car to escape a sexual assault and was injured. The court held the defendant liable unless her reaction was:

1. ASo "daft" or unexpected that no reasonable person could have foreseen it
2. BTaken without first asking the defendant to stop the car and let her out
3. CMore dangerous than staying in the car
4. DCaused by her own panic and fear

R v Gomez (1993) held that an appropriation in theft:

1. ARequires that the act was not authorised by the owner, even if consent was obtained by fraud
2. BCan occur even when the owner consents, if the consent was obtained by deception
3. CRequires a physical taking of the property
4. DOnly occurs when the defendant leaves the shop