Across
- 2. An ideal that embraces all aspects of civilized life and that is linked to fundamental notions of fairness and to cultural beliefs about right and wrong
- 5. The scientific study of the causes and prevention of crime and the rehabilitation and punishment of offenders
- 7. Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction, for which there is no legally acceptable justification or excuse
- 9. The body of law originating from usage and custom rather than from written statutes
- 11. The philosophy of law
- 12. inclusive measure of the UCR Program’s violent and property crime categories
- 13. One who seeks to protect personal freedoms within the process of criminal justice.
- 16. A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes individual rights at all stages of justice system processing.
- 17. A traditional measure of investigative effectiveness that compares the number of crimes reported or discovered to the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means
- 19. The use of sanctions and rewards within a group to influence and shape the behavior of individual members of that group.
- 20. Crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials.
- 21. The existence within one society of diverse groups that maintain unique cultural identities while frequently accepting and participating in the larger society’s legal and political systems
- 23. Advocate One who believes that under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights.
- 24. An act in violation of the law
- 25. A rule of conduct
- 26. A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system’s components function primarily to serve their own interests.
- 27. Liability without fault or intention
Down
- 1. The state of mind that accompanies a criminal act
- 3. The principle of fairness
- 4. Crime-fighting strategies that have been scientifically tested and are based on social science research.
- 6. An offense not yet completed
- 8. A criminal justice perspective that assumes that the system’s components work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice.
- 10. Malicious computer programs
- 14. The facts surrounding an event
- 15. A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of criminal offenders.
- 18. The body of judicial precedent
- 22. Written or codified laws