The justifications for requiring actus reus are:
A) to prevent punishing a person for his or her thoughts.
B) criminal laws should not be so broad as to punish people who entertain criminal thoughts only in their minds.
C) some crimes require planning and the law punishes this type of mental preparation.
D) Both A and B.
D
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Members of the SLA first came together as a result of their work with:
a. Prison Law Collective b. Prison Reform Movement c. Prisoners Revolutionary Union d. Black Cultural Association
A child who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his physical, mental, or emotional health, or morals, and the deprivation is not due primarily to the lack of financial means of his parents, guardian, or other custodian is referred to as:
A. deprived, dependent, or neglected B. delinquent C. criminal D. of low socioeconomic status