Across
- 1. Serious crime such as homicide, aggravated assault, or robbery; generally punishable by death or imprisonment of more than one year in a penitentiary.
- 8. Act of omission forbidden by law and punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or even death.
- 9. Specific conditions that must occur for an act to be called a specific kind of crime.
- 10. Those crucial to resolving criminal investigations.
- 11. A logical process in which a conclusion follows from specific facts; a proof that a suspect is guilty of an offense.
- 13. Basic forensic theory that objects that come in contact with each other always transfer material, however minute, to each other.
- 15. Going from the generalization and establishing it by gathering specific facts.
- 16. Legislative act relating to crime and its punishment.
- 19. Act of the legislative body of a municipality or county, including misdemeanor crimes.
- 20. Philosophy that the police must work with the community through partnerships and problem solving to address problems of crime and disorder.
- 22. A "sudden knowing" without any conscious reasoning or apparent logic; based on knowledge and experience or what is commonly called street sense; a "gut feeling" developed by experience.
- 23. Process that uses powerful analytical tools to quickly and thoroughly explore mountains of data to discover new patterns or confirm suspected patterns or trends.
- 25. Crime or offense that is less serious than a felony and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of as long as one year in an institution other than a penitentiary.
Down
- 1. Application of physical sciences and their technology to examining physical evidence of crimes.
- 2. Evidence favorable to the accused that would clear the accused of blame.
- 3. Skilled in interacting across gender, ethnic, generational, social, and political group lines.
- 4. Specialists trained in recording, identifying, and interpreting the minutiae (minute details) of physical evidence.
- 5. The process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying, and presenting evidence to determine what happened and who is responsible.
- 6. Spontaneous statements made at the time a crime is committed and closely related to actions involved in the crime; considered more truthful than later, planned responses.
- 7. Avenues bearing clues or potential sources of information relevant to solving a crime.
- 12. Person's degree of risk of being sued.
- 14. A person who searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in the investigation of crime and suspected criminals.
- 17. Characteristic way a criminal commits a specific type of crime.
- 18. Focuses on the location of crimes--the hot spots where most crimes occur--rather than on the criminal.
- 21. To observe or study closely; to inquire into something systematically in a search for truthful information.
- 24. Geographic areas with a higher incident rate of criminal activity.