Across
- 4. knowingly misrepresenting a fact to get something from someone else
- 5. crimes committed via the internet
- 8. forcible stealing
- 10. what early prisons were named because criminals were supposed to feel penitent (sorry) for what they'd done
- 12. willful destruction of property
- 13. unlawful entry into any building with intent to commit a crime (usually theft)
- 14. any crime motivated by hate based on a certain bias
- 16. seeks to isolate a criminal from society to protect ordinary citizens
- 19. tries to prevent crimes
- 20. crime of purposely setting property on fire
- 21. trying to treat and reform a lawbreaker
- 24. physical attack on another person
- 25. rate at which past prison inmates go on to commit more crimes
Down
- 1. murder and manslaughter both fall into this category
- 2. the usual legal word for theft
- 3. unlawful killing of a human being with intent
- 6. when someone takes something they've been entrusted with
- 7. threatening or bribing a witness testifying in a criminal case
- 9. making a threat in order to get something (usually money) from someone else
- 11. hitting a person repeatedly with something
- 15. an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime
- 17. when you want revenge
- 18. what a convicted defendant might be ordered to pay a victim for "damages"
- 22. lying under oath in a court of law
- 23. electronically breaking into or disrupting someone else's computer system without permission