Legal Studies 3080

Can you recognize a crime?


How good are you at recognizing crimes? Do the activity below.  For each scenario, click on "yes" or "no" to select whether or not it is a crime. When you have completed your choices, check your answers by clicking "Show Answers" at the bottom of the screen to see how many you identified correctly.  



Acts
Criminal?
Ms. Halvorsen fires Clay from his job without notice or explanation.
Yes No
Lucy parks in a "No Parking" zone.
Yes No
Mr. Masse agrees to sell Ricco his car for $12,000 but then changes his mind.
Yes No
A waiter at the Acme restaurant assures Gudrun that there are no mussels in her seafood entrée; but there are and Gudrun dies from an allergic reaction.
Yes No
A courier fails to deliver a job acceptance on time; as a result, Kim misses out on a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
Yes No
Arne breaks into Miss Salt's house to steal her computer.
Yes No

 

Only the last act in the chart is a crime. Most of the others fall into the area of law known as civil law ; in which one wronged individual takes another to court (this will be explained shortly in this lesson). The second act in the chart - parking in a "No Parking" zone - falls into the area of law called quasi-criminal law (this will be explained later in the course, as well).