Intro to CJ Crossword
Across
- 3. offender repays society or the victim of crime for the trouble and expense the offender caused
- 5. A violation of societal rules of behavior as interpreted and expressed by a criminal legal code created by people holding social and political power
- 6. Representative of the state (executive branch) in criminal proceedings
- 7. The process of publicly pitting the prosecution and the defense against one another in pursuit of the truth
- 8. Assimilation into the separate culture in the prison that has its own set of rewards and behaviors, as well as its own norms, rules, and language
- 10. The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft
- 12. state or federal correctional institution for incarceration of felony offenders for terms of one year or more
- 14. strategy of applying proper treatment so an offender will present no further threat to society
- 16. Guilty mind
- 17. The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear
Down
- 1. request for an appellate court to examine a lower court’s decision to determine whether proper procedures were followed
- 2. The use of personal decision making and choice in carrying out operations in the criminal justice system
- 4. A minor crime usually punished by less than one year’s imprisonment in a local institution, such as a county jail
- 8. sentence entailing the conditional release of a convicted offender into the community under the supervision of the court, subject to certain conditions for a specified time
- 9. What you think a
- 10. monetary amount for or condition of pretrial release, normally set by a judge at the initial appearance to ensure the return of the accused at subsequent proceedings
- 11. An illegal act
- 13. The action by a grand jury when it finds that probable cause exists for prosecution of an accused suspect
- 15. A more serious offense that carries a penalty of incarceration in a state prison, usually for one year or more