CLU3M - The Nature of Crime

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Across
  1. 2. changed or updated; the Criminal Code has been this almost every year since 1892
  2. 4. A prior court ruling used as a legal guide; Canadian courts relied on British ones before Confederation
  3. 7. The federal statute containing the majority of Canada's criminal laws
  4. 9. the goal of helping offenders reintegrate; mentioned in the Insite analysis questions
  5. 10. Increasingly organized criminal activity carried out via computers or the internet
  6. 13. One of the standards criminal law aims to preserve; relates to moral and social norms in society
  7. 14. A written law passed by Parliament; the Criminal Code is one of these
  8. 15. The failure to act when required; some offences under the Criminal Code are based on this
  9. 16. The federal body that has exclusive power to create and amend criminal law in Canada
  10. 17. Provincial or municipal laws covering less serious offences, usually punishable by fines
  11. 19. The body of laws that prohibit and punish acts that injure people, property, and society as a whole
  12. 20. The death penalty; removed from the Criminal Code in 1976
Down
  1. 1. the level of government with exclusive jurisdiction over criminal law in Canada
  2. 3. The 1867 political union that gave the federal government exclusive power to enact criminal law in Canada
  3. 5. The authority of a government body to make or administer laws in a particular area
  4. 6. A specific act that breaks a law; crimes are listed as these in the Criminal Code
  5. 8. Any act or omission prohibited and punishable by federal statute
  6. 11. the punishment prescribed by law for committing an offence
  7. 12. to cancel or remove an outdated law
  8. 16. This level of government appoints its own judges and administers its own court system in Canada
  9. 18. the most local level of government; can receive jurisdiction from provinces for quasi-criminal matters