Across
- 2. an intentional act or omission to act, niether justified nor excused, that is in violation of criminal law and punishable by state
- 4. - a loosely organized collection of agencies-police, courts, and correction- that operate at the local, state, and federal levels, that the charged with protecting the public, maintaining order, enforcing laws, identifying offenders, bringing the guilty to justice, and treating and punishing convicted persons
- 5. to accuse of wrongdoing through formal accusations
- 7. a person against whom a charge is brought in court
- 9. the territory over which a law enforcement agency has authority
- 10. a sum of money that the arrested person pays to guarantee really that he or she will appear at future hearings
- 11. An individual charged with carrying out a legal prosecution
Down
- 1. a perspective of criminal that identifies the repression of the crime as the most important function of the criminal justice
- 3. behavioral expectations of a group
- 4. the procedures that occur in the criminal justice system, from a citizen's initial contact with police to his or her potential arrest, charging, booking, prosecution, conviction, sentencing, incarceration, and receiving probation, to be paroled
- 6. an institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes
- 8. a verdict of not guilty