CHAPTER #10

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Across
  1. 2. DISCRIMINATION Differential treatment of individuals based on irrelevant criteria, such as race, gender, or social class.
  2. 5. Apply when a person has been convicted twice for various crimes.
  3. 8. Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
  4. 9. Imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing.
  5. 11. The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.
  6. 15. Written or oral information from crime victims, in their own words, about how a crime has affected them.
  7. 17. A sentence to confinement for a fixed or minimum period that is specified by statute.
  8. 18. The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
  9. 19. A sentence reduction given to prisoners who maintain good behavior while imprisoned.
Down
  1. 1. Establishes the minimum length of prison time for specified crimes and thus limits the amount of discretion a judge has when sentencing a defendant.
  2. 2. Standards for determining the punishment that a person convicted of a crime should receive, based on the nature of the crime and the offender's criminal history.
  3. 3. A circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense.
  4. 4. A difference in treatment or outcome that does not necessarily result from intentional bias or prejudice.
  5. 6. Factors that increases the severity or culpability of a criminal act.
  6. 7. A system of criminal justice that focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large.
  7. 10. Physically removing an individual from the society against which they are deemed to have offended.
  8. 12. Intended to dissuade an adversary from taking an action not yet started.
  9. 13. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.
  10. 14. To be punished or rewarded in a manner appropriate to one's actions or behavior.
  11. 16. Referring to the investigation into the history of person convicted of a crime before sentencing to determine if there are extenuating circumstances which should increase or decrease the sentence.