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1. Most crimes today are defined by legislative passage of a ___________ and not the common

law.

2. Crimes, in general, require: (1) an act or omission and (2) _______________.

3. The requirement that criminal statutes be clear, not vague, and place citizens on reasonable

notice of the conduct made criminal is a constitutional one that derives from the ____________

clause of the U.S. Constitution.

4. A criminal conspiracy typically requires an agreement between two or more persons to commit

an unlawful act, or to use unlawful means to achieve an otherwise lawful result, and an

____________ done in furtherance of the conspiracy.

5. The types of criminal statutes that target business executives and financial representatives are

commonly referred to as _______-collar crimes.

6. At common law, the crime of bribery, as the act of giving money, property, or any benefit to

influence the judgment of a particular person in favor of the giver, was limited to bribes directed

to ______________.

7. The crime of ______________ involves threatening someone with bad publicity with the intent

to ruin or harm the personal or business reputation of another.

8. Shoplifting is typically a statutory expansion of the common law crime of ____________.

9. The federal crime of ___________ involves buying or selling a publicly-traded stock using

confidential information entrusted to you during the course of your employment before it is

made public.

10. The federal crime of _____________________ involves the knowing and willful participation in a

financial transaction when the transaction is designed to conceal or disguise the source of the

funds.