Criminal law vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a verdict not guilty.
  2. 4. behavioral expectations of a group.
  3. 6. the territory over which a law enforcement agency has authority.
  4. 10. a perspective of criminal justice that identifies the repression of crime as the most important function of the criminal justice system.
  5. 11. to accuse of wrongdoing through formal accusations.
  6. 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. 1. a sum of money that the arrested person needs to pay to guarantee that he or she will appear at future hearings.
  2. 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.
  3. 5. an institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes.
  4. 7. a person against whom a charge is brought in court.
  5. 8. an individual charged with carrying out legal prosecution.
  6. 9. an institution for the confinement of people who have been convicted of serious crimes.