Parties to Crime MCQs

Parties to Crime MCQs

Our team has conducted extensive research to compile a set of Parties to Crime MCQs. We encourage you to test your Parties to Crime knowledge by answering these 20+ multiple-choice questions provided below.
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1: ______ assist those who are present and carry out the crime.

A.   Principals

B.   Accessories

C.   Parties

D.   Accomplices

2: ______ are individuals who, knowing that a crime has been committed, assisted the perpetrators.

A.   Principals in the first degree

B.   Principals in the second degree

C.   Accessories before the fact

D.   Accessories after the fact

3: Accessories were actually present and carried out the crime while principals assisted the accessories.

A.   True

B.   False

4: Under modern law, both principals and accessories are punishable as felons.

A.   True

B.   False

5: Individuals who assist the perpetrators following the crime will be charged as principals in the second degree.

A.   True

B.   False

6: ______ liability holds individuals responsible who affirmatively aid and abet a criminal act with a purposeful intent.

A.   Vicarious

B.   Accomplice

C.   Partner

D.   Independent

7: Which case provides that there is an exception to the mere presence doctrine when the defendant possesses a duty to intervene?

A.   Bailey v. United States

B.   State v. Walden

C.   Bailey v. Walden

D.   State v. Bailey

8: The ______ rule provides that being present and watching the commission of a crime is not sufficient to satisfy the actus reus requirement of accomplice liability.

A.   Bystander

B.   Observer

C.   Mere presence

D.   Mere passerby

9: The Pinkerton rule provides that a conspiracy to commit a crime and the crime itself are separate and distinct crimes. An individual may be charged with one or both of these offenses.

A.   True

B.   False

10: Parental responsibility statutes do not hold parents responsible for the failure to take reasonable steps to prevent their children from engaging in serious or persistent criminal behavior.

A.   True

B.   False

11: _____ is known as parties responsible for the separate and lesser offense of assisting a criminal offender to avoid apprehension, prosecution, or conviction.

A.   Georgia

B.   All of these

C.   Accessories

D.   Alabama

12: Is accessories after the fact individuals liable for assisting an offender to avoid arrest, prosecution, or punishment?

A.   False

B.   True

13: _____ is individuals under the common law who assist an individual prior to the commission of a crime and who are not present at the scene of the crime.

A.   Police power

B.   All of these

C.   Accessories before the fact

D.   Mala prohibita crime

14: _____ is defined as parties liable as principals before and during the commission of a crime.

A.   Public safety

B.   Accomplices

C.   None of these

D.   Stare decisis

15: _____ is known as the guilt of a party to a crime based on the criminal acts of the primary party.

A.   All of these

B.   Derivative liability

C.   Litigants

D.   Juries

16: Is mere presence rule an individual’s presence at the scene of a crime generally does not satisfy the actus reus requirement for accomplice liability?

A.   False

B.   True

17: _____ is a person encouraging or facilitating the commission of a crime will be held liable as an accomplice for the crime he or she aided and abetted as well as for crimes that are the natural and probable outcome of the criminal conduct.

A.   Natural and probable consequences doctrine

B.   All of these

C.   North Korea

D.   Russia

18: _____ is defined as statutory rule that parents are responsible for the criminal acts of their children.

A.   None of these

B.   Voluntariness

C.   Parental responsibility laws

D.   Capital felony

19: _____ is known as individuals liable for assisting another to commit a crime.

A.   Voluntariness

B.   None of these

C.   Parties to a crime

D.   Involuntariness

20: Is principals in the first degree common law term for the actual perpetrators of a crime?

A.   True

B.   False

21: _____ is common law term for individuals who are present at the crime scene and assist in the crime.

A.   All of these

B.   Principals in the second degree

C.   Use of fire to commit a felony

D.   Rational basis test

22: _____ is defined as liability for serving or providing alcohol to minors in the event of an accident or injury.

A.   Social host liability laws

B.   A felony.

C.   Knowingly

D.   None of these

23: _____ is known as holding an individual or corporation liable for a crime committed by another based on the nature of the relationship between the parties.

A.   Mere presence

B.   All of these

C.   Vicarious liability

D.   Bystander