1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
luda_lava [24]
3 years ago
8

What is the difference between one’s motive and one’s intent to commit a crime, and which is the most important in our legal sys

tem?
Social Studies
1 answer:
erik [133]3 years ago
4 0

A motive, in law, especially criminal law, is the cause that moves people to induce a certain action. ... The law technically distinguishes between motive and intent. "Intent" in criminal law is synonymous with Mens rea, which means the mental state shows liability which is enforced by law as an element of a crime.

You might be interested in
What did Cortes do so his men could not retreat or go back to Spain?
MissTica

Answer:

According to HIstory.com

Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or “the Night of Sadness,” many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded by CortÝs sank. Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor who had become merely a subject of Cortes in the previous year, was also killed during the struggle; by the Aztecs or the Spanish, it is not known

5 0
3 years ago
Modernization theory claims that ______________ and modernization have lowered the power and influence which the elderly once ha
Maslowich
The first blank the answer is industrialization while the second blank is exclusion. Even supposing this theory is not as well recognized and is to some extent debatable, it has made a room in science for accepting how important communal forces have compressed the separate and shared lives of the elderly.
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Oversight and public education are examples of
Brut [27]
They are examples of non-legislative functions of congress.
3 0
3 years ago
How was the theory of evolution developed?
geniusboy [140]
Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands and observed that there were several different types of species of finches and tortoises. These different species of animals were contained to separate islands, all tailored fit for each island. This gave Darwin the idea that species evolve over time into new species.
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Environmental policy addresses all of the following issues except _______.
Alinara [238K]
First question:
answer= C.) Natural disasters 
Second question 
answer = D.) all of the above 
:)
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Personal identity is to ______ as social identity is to ______.
    15·1 answer
  • How are the values of the two 4s related in 0.044?
    14·2 answers
  • Matt and Lisa just had a baby, and Lisa has started to feel completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work she feels she has
    5·1 answer
  • Why is the United States so awesome?
    15·1 answer
  • Im two to three sentences describe three aspects of a free market economy
    7·2 answers
  • Steve made friends _____ later worked with him.<br> which<br> who
    8·2 answers
  • Who wrote the Hammurabi Codes?
    7·1 answer
  • A person has gotten a new job with a much higher salary. She wants to buy a more expensive house with her extra income, but she'
    9·1 answer
  • Carla believed that her teammates on the track team were faster than she was, so she began putting in extra practices in
    7·2 answers
  • In 1978, the Stanford Research Institue (SRI) developed its __________ framework, which divides consumers into types based on ps
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!