Criminal Law - Key Terms
Across
- 4. everyone is subjected to the same laws. people should not be discriminated against when dealing with the legal system
- 5. the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another
- 6. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
- 9. an offence that requires only the actus reus (guilty act)
- 11. a guilty mind
- 13. the practise of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats
- 14. individuals are treated with impartiality
Down
- 1. the action of robbing a person or a place
- 2. minor offences that are heard in the magistrates' court
- 3. serious offences that are heard in front of a judge and jury in the supreme or county courts, e.g. murder
- 7. make a physical attack on
- 8. an act of abducting someone and holding them captive
- 10. an act or omission that is against an existing law, harmful to an individual or society as a whole and punishable by law
- 12. a guilty act