CHAPTER #10
Across
- 2. DISCRIMINATION Differential treatment of individuals based on irrelevant criteria, such as race, gender, or social class.
- 5. Apply when a person has been convicted twice for various crimes.
- 8. Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
- 9. Imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing.
- 11. The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
- 15. Written or oral information from crime victims, in their own words, about how a crime has affected them.
- 17. A sentence to confinement for a fixed or minimum period that is specified by statute.
- 18. The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
- 19. A sentence reduction given to prisoners who maintain good behavior while imprisoned.
Down
- 1. Establishes the minimum length of prison time for specified crimes and thus limits the amount of discretion a judge has when sentencing a defendant.
- 2. Standards for determining the punishment that a person convicted of a crime should receive, based on the nature of the crime and the offender's criminal history.
- 3. A circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense.
- 4. A difference in treatment or outcome that does not necessarily result from intentional bias or prejudice.
- 6. Factors that increases the severity or culpability of a criminal act.
- 7. A system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large.
- 10. Physically removing an individual from the society against which they are deemed to have offended.
- 12. Intended to dissuade an adversary from taking an action not yet started.
- 13. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.
- 14. To be punished or rewarded in a manner appropriate to one's actions or behavior.
- 16. Referring to the investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime before sentencing to determine if there are extenuating circumstances which should increase or decrease the sentence.