Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 Criminal Offenses: Article II - Principles Of Criminal Liability

Article 4. Criminal Act and Mental State

• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-1
  Voluntary act. A material element of every offense is a voluntary act, which includes an omission to perform a duty which the law imposes...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-2
  Possession as voluntary act. Possession is a voluntary act if the offender knowingly procured or received the thing possessed, or was aware of his...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-3
  Mental state. (a) A person is not guilty of an offense, other than an offense which involves absolute liability, unless, with respect to each...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-4
  Intent. A person intends, or acts intentionally or with intent, to accomplish a result or engage in conduct described by the statute defining the...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-5
  Knowledge. A person knows, or acts knowingly or with knowledge of: (a) The nature or attendant circumstances of his or her conduct, described by the...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-6
  Recklessness. A person is reckless or acts recklessly when that person consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that circumstances exist or that a result...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-7
  Negligence. A person is negligent, or acts negligently, when that person fails to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that circumstances exist or...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-8
  Ignorance or mistake. (a) A person's ignorance or mistake as to a matter of either fact or law, except as provided in Section 4-3(c) above,...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 4-9
  Absolute liability. A person may be guilty of an offense without having, as to each element thereof, one of the mental states described in Sections...

Article 5. Parties to Crime

• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 5-1
  Accountability for conduct of another. A person is responsible for conduct which is an element of an offense if the conduct is either that...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 5-2
  When accountability exists. A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when: (a) having a mental state described by the statute defining the...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 5-3
  Separate conviction of person accountable. A person who is legally accountable for the conduct of another which is an element of an offense may...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 5-4
  Responsibility of corporation. (a) A corporation may be prosecuted for the commission of an offense if, but only if: (1) The offense is a...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 5-5
  Accountability for conduct of corporation. (a) A person is legally accountable for conduct which is an element of an offense and which, in the...

Article 6. Responsibility

• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 6-1
  Infancy. No person shall be convicted of any offense unless he had attained his 13th birthday at the time the offense was committed. (Source:...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 6-2
  Insanity. (a) A person is not criminally responsible for conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of mental disease or...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 6-3
  Intoxicated or drugged condition. A person who is in an intoxicated or drugged condition is criminally responsible for conduct unless such condition is involuntarily...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 6-4
  Affirmative Defense. A defense based upon any of the provisions of Article 6 is an affirmative defense except that mental illness is not an...

Article 7. Justifiable Use of Force; Exoneration

• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-1
  Use of force in defense of person. (a) A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent that...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-2
  Use of force in defense of dwelling. (a) A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent that...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-3
  Use of force in defense of other property. (a) A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-4
  Use of force by aggressor. The justification described in the preceding Sections of this Article is not available to a person who: (a) Is...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-5
  Peace officer's use of force in making arrest. (a) A peace officer, or any person whom he has summoned or directed to assist him,...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-6
  Private person's use of force in making arrest. (a) A private person who makes, or assists another private person in making a lawful arrest...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-7
  Private person's use of force in resisting arrest. A person is not authorized to use force to resist an arrest which he knows is...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-8
  Force likely to cause death or great bodily harm. (a) Force which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm, within the meaning...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-9
  Use of force to prevent escape. (a) A peace officer or other person who has an arrested person in his custody is justified in...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-10
  Execution of death sentence. A public officer who, in the exercise of his official duty, puts a person to death pursuant to a sentence...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-11
  Compulsion. (a) A person is not guilty of an offense, other than an offense punishable with death, by reason of conduct that he or she...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-12
  Entrapment. A person is not guilty of an offense if his or her conduct is incited or induced by a public officer or employee,...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-13
  Necessity. Conduct which would otherwise be an offense is justifiable by reason of necessity if the accused was without blame in occasioning or developing...
• Illinois Criminal Code of 2012. - 720 ILCS 5, Section 7-14
  Affirmative defense. A defense of justifiable use of force, or of exoneration, based on the provisions of this Article is an affirmative defense. (Source:...

Last modified: February 18, 2015