Across
- 3. killing another human being with malice aforethought
- 5. A putting off or postponing of proceedings
- 7. The detainment or restraint of a person or thing for the purposes of determining legal rights as regards a thing, or suspicion of criminal activity
- 9. A theory of justice that considers punishment, if proportionate, to be the best response to crime. When an offender breaks the law, justice requires that they forfeit something in return
- 11. provides a means of connecting conduct with a resulting effect, typically an injury
- 15. A person to appear before a court under penalty of having a judgment entered against that person for failing to appear
- 16. The legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime
- 17. An order of a court which directs a law enforcement officer (usually a sheriff) to arrest and bring a person before the judge
- 19. Parental responsibility, especially as allocated to one of two divorcing parents.
- 21. the unlawful killing of another person without premeditation or so-called "malice aforethought"
- 24. An imprisonment (jail) sentence, except that the offender serves the sentence outside of jail, under strict, jail-like conditions
- 25. To separate offenders from society also to protect society from said offenders
- 26. an intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request of the person who wishes to die
- 27. An instrument used to measure physiological responses in humans when they are questioned in order to determine if their answers are truthful
Down
- 1. A period of supervision over an offender, ordered by a court instead of serving time in prison
- 2. When offender has committed a crime outside of their country of citizenship they are sent back to their country
- 4. An accused person's formal reply to a charge in a criminal court, the choices being guilty, not guilty
- 6. The re-integration into society of a convicted person and the main objective of modern penal policy, to counter habitual offending, also known as criminal recidivism
- 8. a written or oral statement made as part of the judicial legal process, which allows crime victims the opportunity to speak during the sentencing of their attacker or at subsequent parole hearings
- 10. A tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially : relapse into criminal behavior
- 12. A report filed with the court prior to sentencing covering the offender's personal and family history and present environment
- 13. occurs when one human being causes the death of another human being
- 14. refers to the act of killing of a newborn child
- 18. the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property
- 20. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
- 22. Has two key assumptions: the first is that specific punishments imposed on offenders will "deter" or prevent them from committing further crimes; the second is that fear of punishment will prevent others from committing similar crimes
- 23. A promise or pledge especially required by law