Across
- 2. a verdict not guilty.
- 4. behavioral expectations of a group.
- 6. the territory over which a law enforcement agency has authority.
- 10. a perspective of criminal justice that identifies the repression of crime as the most important function of the criminal justice system.
- 11. to accuse of wrongdoing through formal accusations.
- 12. an international act or omission to act, neither justified nor excused, that is in violation of criminal law and punishable by the state.
Down
- 1. a sum of money that the arrested person needs to pay to guarantee that he or she will appear at future hearings.
- 3. the heighest appellate court in the U.S. judicial system; it reviews cases appealed from federal and state court systems that the deal with constitutional issues.
- 5. an institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes.
- 7. a person against whom a charge is brought in court.
- 8. an individual charged with carrying out legal prosecution.
- 9. an institution for the confinement of people who have been convicted of serious crimes.