CRM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Actus Reus, Mens Rea, Moral Police

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 200
• Professor: Daniel Alati

Document Summary

Introduction: sentencing discretion, attempts, conspiracy criminalizes the planning, counselling a crime that is not committed, counselling a crime that is committed, aiding and abetting, accessory after the fact. Actus reus of attempts: more than mere preparation: all the crown has to prove that the person did more than mere preparation for the crime. No specific definition of what is more than mere preparation. R. v. deutsch (1986) attempted procurement of prosection, more than mere preparation to hold job interviews and offer large sums of money to sex workers or prostitutes. This was seen as more than mere preparation to establish actus reus. R. v. gladstone (1996) selling legally obtained fish, the accused brought this fish to a store owner"s establishment and offered him the fish which was held to be more than mere preparation for actus reus. R. v. james (1971) went through glove apartment of a car to look for keys to steal the car.