1. The legal essence of criminal conduct
The three essential aspects of all crimes
The criminal act
A culpable mental state (mens rea)
A concurrence of the two

2. Throughout the years, legal scholars have refined considerable each of the elements that compromise the conceptual essence of criminality
Causation
A resulting harm
The principle of legality
Necessary attendant circumstances

3. Attorney’s refer to the term conduct as more than just behavior or action. They think about it as the mental state and behavior at the time of the time of the behavior

4. Thinking is Not Doing
People who have bad thoughts and feel guilty about them can’t be arrested. Only if they make an action.

5. Being is Not Doing
If a person on TV says that they did drugs or something else bad in the past they can’t be arrested.

6. Voluntary Acts
Action’s done by people can’t be considered criminal liability if the action that they did statuary, common law or contractual duty to perform the act.

7. 1. Reflexes and convulsions
2. Bodily movements during unconsciousness or sleep.

8. Specific, General , and Transferred Intent
General Intent – If the defendant intended to cause the outcome of the act, then general intent exists
Specific Intent – IN the early years referred to a felony, which was punished with death, from a misdemeanor, which was punished in other ways.

9. State of Mind
Mens rea, is the second general element of a crime. Refers to the specific mental state of the defendant at the time of the crime.