Criminal Law Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. To deprive an owner of property by the use of force.
  2. 5. Person who is actually involved in the primary criminal act.
  3. 8. Criminal offense punishable by a fine or imprisonment of less than one year.
  4. 11. A continuing pattern of negative behavior toward another by use of electronic media instead of face-to-face.
  5. 13. Death caused with malice aforethought (intent).
  6. 14. Element of physical conduct necessary for someone to commit a criminal act.
  7. 15. Mental state required on the part of the accused as an element to convict him of a crime.
  8. 16. Persons who aid the people involved in the crime, before or after the crime is committed.
Down
  1. 1. The act of enticing, inviting, requesting, urging, or ordering someone to commit a crime.
  2. 3. Law created and enforced by the legislature for the health, welfare, safety and general good of the public.
  3. 4. A situation where law enforcement leads a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime.
  4. 6. When a party unlawfully obtains property of another with the intent to dispossess that person of the property.
  5. 7. A serious crime punishable by imprisonment in excess of one year or death.
  6. 9. Death without malice aforethought (without intent).
  7. 10. The cooperation of two or more people in planning and committing a crime.
  8. 12. A defense in which a third party causes another person to commit a criminal act by exerting influence over that person.