Criminal Justice Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. the release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior.
  2. 3. a formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.
  3. 6. The procedure by which law enforcement officials record facts about the arrest of and charges against a suspect such as the crime for which the arrest was made, together with information concerning the identification of the suspect and other pertinent facts.
  4. 8. seize (someone) by legal authority and take into custody.
  5. 10. A state in which a person's normal capacity to act or reason is inhibited by alcohol or drugs
  6. 12. apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.
  7. 16. Circumstances Factors that increases the severity or culpability of a criminal act, including, but not limited to, heinousness of the crime, lack of remorse, and prior conviction of another crime.
  8. 18. Punishment the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
  9. 21. the act of making someone decide not to do something : the act of preventing a particular act or behavior from happening
  10. 22. the condition of being a minor.
  11. 23. a legal term for a judge's delaying of a defendant's serving of a sentence after they have been found guilty, in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation.
  12. 24. constraint illegally exercised to force someone to perform an act.
  13. 25. leave of absence from prison by day enabling a prisoner to continue in normal employment.
  14. 26. the set of agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws.
  15. 27. a legal document authorizing a police officer or other official to enter and search premises.Affidavit
  16. 29. refers to the defendant's appearance before a judge within few hours of his her arrest.
  17. 32. declare the punishment decided for (an offender).
  18. 35. the effect of a sentence in positively preventing (rather than merely deterring) future offending.
  19. 39. the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
  20. 41. a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
  21. 42. a voluntary alternative to the criminal justice system for young people who have committed a crime or an offense.
Down
  1. 1. a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act is alleged to have taken place.
  2. 2. the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
  3. 4. the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.
  4. 5. the re-integration into society of a convicted person and the main objective of modern penal policy, to counter habitual offending, also known as criminal recidivism.
  5. 7. reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.).
  6. 9. the legal standard by which a police officer has the right to briefly detain a suspect for investigatory purposes and frisk the outside of their clothing for weapons, but not drugs.
  7. 11. the process when a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom of liberty at that time.
  8. 13. a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to a certain residence. Travel is usually restricted, if allowed at all.
  9. 14. a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit.
  10. 15. a person who is not old enough to be held responsible for criminal acts. In most states and on the federal level, this age threshold is set at 18 years.
  11. 17. issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property.
  12. 19. a legal process for resolving some legal dispute.
  13. 20. failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
  14. 28. the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law.
  15. 30. the action of arraigning someone in court.
  16. 31. punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
  17. 33. A defense that permits a person to act in a criminal manner when an emergency situation, not of the person's own creation compels the person to act in a criminal manner to avoid greater harm from occurring.
  18. 34. Circumstances conditions or happenings which do not excuse or justify criminal conduct, but are considered out of mercy or fairness in deciding the degree of the offense the prosecutor charges or influencing reduction of the penalty upon conviction.
  19. 36. to confine in or as if in a prison
  20. 37. Conduct prohibited and punishable by the State.
  21. 38. a jury, normally of twenty-three jurors, selected to examine the validity of an accusation before trial.
  22. 40. a trial rendered invalid through an error in the proceedings.