Across
- 2. Evidence favorable to the accused, the courts have deemed this to be a violation of a defendants due process rights.
- 3. A sudden knowing without any conscious reasoning
- 6. Searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in investigations of crime and suspected criminals.
- 8. the perpetrator of a crime will bring something to the crime scene and will leave with something from it
- 12. To observe or study closely, to inquire into something
- 15. A legislative act relating to prohibited conduct and attaching a penalty or punishment to that conduct.
- 16. characteristic way a criminal commits a specific type of crime
- 17. avenues bearing clues or potential sources of info. relevant to solving a crime
- 18. most crimes occur
- 19. a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.
- 20. less serious crime
- 21. refers to specialists trained in recording, identifying, and interpreting the minute of physical evidence.
- 23. A logical process in which a conclusion follows from specific conditions.
- 24. The belief that by working together the police and the community can accomplish what neither can accomplish alone.
- 25. Changes the focus from the criminal to the location of crimes
Down
- 1. Statues and ordinances list specific conditions
- 4. Investigators must know how to sift through the mountains of available info to find the data that pertains to their case.
- 5. An act or omission that is forebitten by law and considered an offense against the state
- 7. pieces of information that are available at the scene of a crime
- 9. Skilled in interacting across gender, ethic, generational, social, and political group lines.
- 10. refers to a persons degree of risk of being sued
- 11. the events, circumstances, remarks, etc. which relate to a particular case, especially as constituting admissible evidence in a court of law.
- 13. A boarder field that encompasses the application of myriad scientific processes to the law
- 14. Applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials.
- 22. A serious crime, graver than a misdemeanor