Criminal Law - Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. everyone is subjected to the same laws. people should not be discriminated against when dealing with the legal system
  2. 5. the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another
  3. 6. wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain
  4. 9. an offence that requires only the actus reus (guilty act)
  5. 11. a guilty mind
  6. 13. the practise of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats
  7. 14. individuals are treated with impartiality
Down
  1. 1. the action of robbing a person or a place
  2. 2. minor offences that are heard in the magistrates' court
  3. 3. serious offences that are heard in front of a judge and jury in the supreme or county courts, e.g. murder
  4. 7. make a physical attack on
  5. 8. an act of abducting someone and holding them captive
  6. 10. an act or omission that is against an existing law, harmful to an individual or society as a whole and punishable by law
  7. 12. a guilty act