Criminal law worksheet with answers

A person who helps or encourages another to commit a crime, without carrying out the act themselves, is called:

1. AA principal offender
2. BAn innocent agent
3. CA co-defendant witness
4. DAn accessory (secondary party)

A defendant who did not know what they were doing because of a severe mental disease may rely on:

1. AProvocation
2. BInsanity
3. CDuress
4. DNecessity

Which Act created the offences of fraud by false representation, failing to disclose information and abuse of position?

1. AThe Criminal Justice Act 1988
2. BThe Theft Act 1978
3. CThe Serious Crime Act 2007
4. DThe Fraud Act 2006

Gang members threaten D to make her rob a post office. D had joined the gang knowing it used violence. Following R v Hasan, D:

1. ACan rely on necessity instead of duress
2. BCan rely on duress because the threat was real, immediate and impossible for her to escape
3. CCan rely on duress only if the robbery failed
4. DCannot rely on duress because she voluntarily associated with violent criminals

D takes V's bag and is seen; a few seconds later D ties V up to escape. Following R v Hale, D is guilty of robbery because:

1. AAppropriation is a continuing act, so the force was used at the time of the theft
2. BThe bag was later recovered by the police
3. CTying up a victim is robbery even without theft
4. DAny force used on the victim within an hour of the theft automatically turns it into robbery

D knocks over a candle by accident, sees a fire start, and walks away without doing anything. The house burns down. D is most likely:

1. ANot liable, because the fire started by accident
2. BLiable only if D intended to start the fire initially
3. CNot liable, because the law imposes no duty to act to protect property
4. DLiable, because D created a dangerous situation and failed to act

In R v Windle (1952), the court interpreted "wrong" in the M'Naghten Rules to mean:

1. AWrong according to the defendant's own beliefs
2. BMorally wrong by society's standards
3. CLegally wrong
4. DWrong in the eyes of a doctor

Which principle comes from DPP v Majewski (1977)?

1. ADrunkenness reduces murder to manslaughter in every case
2. BInvoluntary intoxication is always a complete defence
3. CIntoxication can never be considered by a jury
4. DVoluntary intoxication is no defence to crimes of basic intent