Criminal Justice

3. The need to prove the simultaneous occurrence of both actus reus and mens rea.
7. Freedom from restraint and the power to follow one's own will
8. A place where inmates are held for minor offenses.
10. Justification against denial or censure.
13. Adopted in convention on September 17, 1787, ratified by the states in 1788
15. A national survey published by the bureau of Justice Statistics.
16. Your genetic code.
17. Unfair treatment of a person, racial group, or minority.
19. The sworn testimony of a witness taken outside of court in the presence of the prosecution and defense attorneys.
21. mental desire and will to act in a particular way.

1. A conscious, intentional wrongdoing, state of mind.
2. Since 1930, the FBI has administered this report.
4. To plead no contest.
5. Carrying out a death sentence
6. To beat severely with a whip or rod.
8. The specific area in which police have authority.
9. The act of arresting; seizure.
11. The rights that are read to you when you are arrested.
12. An excuse of being in another place, used by a person accused or suspected of a crime.
14. A prison in which prisoners a locked up for roughly 23 hours a day.
18. Encouraging or inducing another to commit a crime or join in the commission of a crime, or sexual acts for pay.
20. A device that secures the head and hands used as a form of punishment.