chapter 2
Across
- 2. crimes connected by wealth or powerful individual in corse of there perfession
- 6. the prosecution pf an accused person twice for the same offence
- 8. latin for " to stand by a dection"
- 10. crime during which no violence is perpetrated
- 11. the party bringing a lawsuit
- 13. the legal doctoine that says that if death occurs during thr commission od a felony the perputratir of the crime may be charged with first degree murder
- 14. crimes commited by members of illegal organizations
- 15. a serious offence with a possible sentince of more then a year in prison
- 17. the response to a charge in which the defendant amits to commiting the act
- 20. the test of legal insanity
- 23. latin for " guilty deed"
- 24. a lesser offence typically punishiable by a fine or up to one year in local jail
- 25. a type of goverment that divides power between a national governments and governments of smaller geographic territory
- 26. a generic term for all noncriminal law
- 27. the responce by the defendent to a criminal charge
- 28. the standerd used by jurors to arrive at verdicts
Down
- 1. latin for " an eye for an eye"
- 3. violent crimes include homicide
- 4. a person agenst whom the criminal charge is pending
- 5. rules that set forth how substantive laws are to be enforced
- 7. the reason for commiting a crime
- 9. the body of law that defines criminal offences and perscribes punishemnets for there infractions
- 12. latin for "gulity mind"
- 16. the authority to make legal decision and judgment's often based on geographic area
- 18. the body of law that spells out the element of criminal acts
- 19. a purpousful act or state of mind to commit a crime
- 21. police tactices that unduly encourge or induce an individival to commit a crime he or she woundlt commit
- 22. the requirement that states must meet to introduce evidence