Across
- 1. Prohibits a punishment culturally adroit
- 5. spontaneous statements made at the time of a crime concerning and closely related to actions involved in the crime
- 11. Discovering, collecting, and presenting evidence to determine what happened
- 12. characteristic way a criminal commits a specific type of crime
- 14. physical evidence favorable to the accused, that would clear the accused of blame; for example, having a blood type different from that found at a homicide
- 19. application of the physical sciences and their technology to examine physical evidence of crimes; includes the branch of criminalistics
- 20. making a generalization and establishing it by gathering specific facts
- 22. major crime such as homicide, aggravated assault or robbery. Usually carries a penalty of imprisonment in a state penitentiary or death
- 23. Persons risk of being sued
Down
- 1. Recording and interpreting minute details of physical evidence
- 2. Person who searches for and preserves physical evidence
- 3. minor crimes such as shoplifting or pilferage; less serious than a felony. Usually carries a fine or a short sentence in a county or municipal jail
- 4. Objects that come in contact with each other always transfer material, however minute, to each other.
- 6. process that uses powerful analytical tools to quickly and thoroughly explore mountains of data to discover new patterns or confirm suspected patterns or trends
- 7. act of the legislative body of a municipality or county relating to all the rules governing the municipality or county, including misdemeanor crime
- 8. Philosophy that the police must work with the community
- 9. geographic areas with a higher incidence rate of criminal activity
- 10. a process of reasoning by which a fact may be deduced
- 13. gestae statements spontaneous statements made at the time a crime is committed and closely related to actions involved in the crime. Considered more truthful than latter, planned responses.
- 15. avenues bearing clues or potential sources of information relevant to solving a crime
- 16. to observe or study closely; to inquire into something systematically in a search for truthful information
- 17. Act that is forbidden by the law
- 18. conditions that must exist and be proven to exist for an act to be called a specific kind of crime
- 21. a "sudden knowing" without any conscious reasoning or apparent logic. Based on knowledge and experience or what is commonly called street sense. An intangible urge; a "gut feeling" developed by experience