Test Run
Across
- 2. Act – one of the basic elements of a crime: an action that is defined by law as being forbidden OR failure to act (2 words)
- 5. – a serious crime that is punished by one or more years in a state or federal prison
- 8. – this type of crime includes willing participants who know they are exchanging illegal goods or services
- 13. – less serious crime that usually is punished by a fine or imprisonment up to one year in a local jail
- 14. Crime – also known as Visible Crime as these types of crimes are very much publicized by local and national news (2 words)
- 15. Procedure – the steps taken and decisions made during the investigation, accusation, arrest, trial, verdict and sentencing of a person arrested for committing a crime (2 words)
- 16. – Last name of individual who was found not guilty in the criminal case for the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman
- 19. – When people use computers and the internet to commit criminal acts, they are committing what types of crime?
- 20. Jeopardy – A clause in the Fifth Amendment which states that a person cannot be tried for the same crime twice after initially found not guilty (2 words)
- 23. - one of the basic elements of a crime: the act has to cause the harmful act that was intended
- 25. Law – determines what human behaviors/conduct are punishable because they injure society (2 words)
- 26. Negligence – one of the elements of mens rea: when a person commits a criminal act unintentionally because of an extreme lack of care (2 words)
- 27. – The Boston Marathon Bombing is an example of what type of crime?
Down
- 1. – Percentage or probability needed to find defendant guilty in a civil case (2 words)
- 3. – the person accused of committing a crime
- 4. liability – one of the elements of mens rea: when the defendant is liable for his/her actions regardless of the intent or mental state at the time of committing the criminal action (2 words)
- 6. – this type of law focuses on settling disputes between individuals or organizations with monetary compensation being the “punishment”
- 7. intent – one of the elements of mens rea: when a person commits a behavior knowing that result of the criminal behavior could or would happen (2 words)
- 9. intent – one of the elements of mens rea: when a person commits a crime and the exact result intended occurs (2 words)
- 10. – government’s side in the criminal case that is trying to prove defendant’s guilt
- 11. – Occupational crime is also known as this type of crime as this type of crime is financially motivated (2 words)
- 12. reus – Latin for “guilty act” (2 words)
- 15. Laws – decisions that were made by judges, not written down, and passed along by word of mouth to help distinguish which actions are criminal beginning in the early 1000s (2 words)
- 17. – Drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, and human trafficking are all examples of what type of crime
- 18. Intent - one of the basic elements of a crime: related to the “guilty mind” or mens rea (2 words)
- 21. a Reasonable Doubt – level of burden of proof needed to find defendant guilty in a criminal case (4 words)
- 22. of Act and Intent - one of the basic elements of a crime: the person has to intend the at when it is committed (5 words)
- 24. – fancy word for laws