Criminal Justice - Vocabulary List 4
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- peace
- public order
- fugitive
- person who has committed a crime, fleeing from the jurisdiction committed in, to escape punishment
- hearing
- court proceeding or the trial of a suit
- illegal
- contrary to law, forbidden by law
- imprisonment
- confinement in a prison
- judgment
- determination or decision of a court
- offense
- violation of criminal law
- kidnapping
- forcible abduction of carrying away a person from his parents, home, or legal protector
- murder
- willful killing of a human being with malice intent
- probation
- delay of imposition of punishment which has been imposed on a person who has been convicted of a crime
- prosecutor
- person who brings action against another in the name of the government
- robbery
- theft from a person, accompanied by violence or threats, putting the person in fear
- self-defense
- protection of ones person and property from injury