Criminal Justice Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. illegal act of willfully setting a fire or charring property
  2. 3. must satisfy before making an arrest, conducting a search without a consent
  3. 5. someone or something accused of a crime
  4. 6. constitutional protections given by police to suspects who are in custody before questioning begins
  5. 10. a government lawyer who initiates against an individual
  6. 11. an intentional act that places another person in unwanted physical contact
  7. 15. illegal abduction or confinement of a person against their will
  8. 16. court-ordered criminal sentence that allows a convicted offender to live and work in the community under supervision
  9. 17. non-consensual infliction of harmful physical contact on another person
  10. 18. any location, person, or object associated with a committed crime that may contain physical evidence for an investigation
  11. 20. a serious crime that carries a maximum penalty of death or imprisonment for more than one year
Down
  1. 1. a lower-level criminal offense that is less serious than a felony
  2. 4. programs that manage, punish, treat, and supervise individuals who have been convicted
  3. 7. sworn body of people convened to hear evidence and come to a verdict
  4. 8. a court order signed by a judge or magistrate that gives police officers the legal right to search a person or a place
  5. 9. public official authorized to hear, preside over, and decide legal cases in a court of law
  6. 12. unlawful entry of a property
  7. 13. someone who sees an event happen firsthand
  8. 14. taking or attempting to take anything of value from a person by forceful contact
  9. 19. information used to prove or disprove a fact