POL: Chapter 4
Across
- 4. The extent of the power to make legal decisions and judgment
- 8. Law: Body of rules and regulations
- 9. Holds someone legally responsible for acts committed before the law
- 13. is considered an inchoate offense (incomplete crimes, are acts taken toward committing a crime or acts that constitute indirect participation in a crime.)
- 15. when you cause damages to a person, property, or reputation
- 16. Rule: Knowing right from wrong except if disabled people/schizophrenic
- 17. change or addition to a law
- 18. Legal principle that ensures Judicial decisions are considered.
- 21. Ackowledgment by the court of the innocence of defendent a person is not
Down
- 1. crime and been sentenced to a six-month period of incarceration
- 2. Action of showing something to be right or reasonable.(legal defense in which the defendant admits to committing the act)
- 3. delicti a criminal law was violated and that someone violated it.
- 5. the act of using force, false imprisonment, coercion, threats, or psychological pressure to compel someone to act contrary to their wishes or interests.
- 6. Reus: The thought of committing a crime (a guilty mind)
- 7. The criminal act and the mental state occur together in order for a crime to take place.
- 10. To stand by decisions
- 11. : the assumption that acts injure not just individuals, but society too.
- 12. The accused or guilty party
- 14. Reus: the criminal act or physically committing a crime
- 19. : the belief that an orderly society is established to maintain order.
- 20. the attorney FOR VICTIM cha rging