Crime-Law Vocab
Across
- 4. To impose a penalty on someone as retribution for an offense, flaw, or fault
- 5. To carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of an incident so as to establish the truth
- 8. A secure building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed
- 9. To intercept and take possession of a person who has attempted to escape or flee from the scene of a crime
Down
- 1. A judicial body or tribunal presided over by a judge, where legal cases are heard and determined
- 2. An individual who has come to feel helpless, or has been harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime or accident
- 3. A sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority for an offense
- 6. The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
- 7. To carry out or perform an act, typically one that is illegal or immoral