Chapter 1 Law

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Across
  1. 4. legal finding, by a jury or judge, or through guilty plea, that a criminal defendant is guilty
  2. 7. taking into custody or detaining of one who is suspected of a crime
  3. 10. brining of changes against an individual, based on probable cause, so as to bring the matter before court
  4. 12. the legal resolution of a dispute (declared guilty or not)
  5. 14. elements of a crime that enhance its seriousness
  6. 16. the movement of defendants and cases through the criminal justice process
  7. 17. penalty or punishment
  8. 18. a scheme whereby one is sentenced for a flexible time period so as to be released when rehabilitated or when the opportunity for rehabilitation is presented
  9. 20. a model of the criminal justice process whereby a four-tiered hierarchy exists, with a few celebrated cases at the top, and lower tiers increasing in size as seriousness of cases decline and informal processes become more likely to occur
Down
  1. 1. a model by packer that emphasizes law and order and argues that every effort must be made to suppress crime, and to try, convict, and incarcerate offenders
  2. 2. a court or jury's judgment or verdict of not guilty of the offenses charged
  3. 3. explains how a society creates laws as a result of common interests and values, which develop largely beacuse people experience similar socialization
  4. 5. crime control strategy whereby an offender who commits three or more violent offenses will be sentenced to a lengthy term in prison, usually 25 years to life
  5. 6. explains how powerful groups create laws to protect their values and interests in diverse societies
  6. 8. a model by packer that advocates defendants presumption of innocence protection of suspects rights, and limitations placed on police powers to avoid convicting innocent persons
  7. 9. a specific, fixed-period sentence ordered by a court
  8. 11. circumstances that would tend to lessen the security of the sentence
  9. 13. authority to make decisions in enforcing the laws based on ones observation and judgment rather than the letter of the law
  10. 15. early release from prison, with conditions like under supervision of a parole agency
  11. 19. a set of rules or values that spell out appropriate human conduct