Question

The primary purpose of criminal law is to compensate a victim. 9. 10. Crimes and criminal punishment guidelines are specified in detailed criminal codes and statutes. 11. Because a corporation is not a natural person, it cannot be convicted of a crime. 12. Commission of the offense of grand larceny involves the theft of larger items as opposed to smaller items that can be hidden, for example, in a purse. 13. Under our criminal laws that exist today, white-collar crime is not punishable by imprisonment. 14. According to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, all powers that the US Constitution neither gives exclusively to the federal government nor takes from the states are reserved for the states. 15. The term "police powers" references the powers granted to local government to enter residences without a search warrant. 16. Fighting words are protected speech under the First Amendment only if they are made in connection with a protest march. 17. A misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or death. 18. A Ponzi scheme is an investment swindle in which high profits are promised from fictitious sources and early investors are paid off with funds raised from later investors

Answer 1

	Answer	Explanation
9	FALSE	The primary purpose of criminal law is to punish the offender
10	TRUE	Criminal codes and statutes specify in detail different guidelines for crimes and criminal punishment
11	FALSE	They can be convicted as they are legal entities
12	FALSE	It involves items of greater value
13	FALSE	People can be imprisoned for white collar crimes like fraud, embezzlement, insider trading etc
14	TRUE	This is as per the concept of Federalism
15	FALSE	It is the power retained by each state to safeguard the health and welfare of its citizenry.
16	FALSE	In fact Supreme Court has indicated that “fighting words” are not protected by the First Amendment. Fighting words means words which “would likely make the person to whom they are addressed commit an act of violence.
17	FALSE	It usually involves imprisonment for a period of up to 12 months
18	TRUE	The main purpose is to constantly mislead investors