Academic Vocabulary - High School Criminal Justice Overview
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Criminal Justice – CTE Vocabulary Abandon (abandonment) Abscond (corrections) Abscond (court) Abortion Accessory Acquitted Acquittal Adjudication Adjudication withheld Adjudicatory Hearing Administrative Judge Admission (corrections) Adultery Advice Advise Affidavit Aftercare Aggravated Assault Aggravating Circumstances Alias Appeal Appeal Proceedings Appearance (court) Appellate Jurisdiction Appellant Aqueous Arson Assessment Assistance Bacteria Backlog (court) Bail Bailiff Barbiturate Beginning Belligerent Bench Warrant Bicycle Bifurcated Trial Bigamy Bill of Attainder Bill of Particulars Bind Over Boisterous Bona fide Bookmaking Calendar Candidate Canvass Capacity Capital Offense Career Criminal Casualties Caucasian Change of Venue Chauffeur Check Fraud Circumstances Citation (appear) Civil Commitment Clearance Clemency Coerce Coercion Coincide Collision Commitment Complaint Complicity Compounding a Criminal Offense Concurrent Sentence Condition of Release Conjugal Visit Consecutive Sentence Contempt of Court Contraband Cooperate Corpse Corrections Counterfeit Courteous Court Clerk Court Disposition Court Order Court Probation Court of Record Courtesy Supervision Criminal Justice Criminal Proceedings Crosswalk Culpability Curfew Violation Custody Crime scene Deceptive Defamation Defecate Defensive Demerit Descendant Description Desperate Deterrent Detainee Detainer (corrections) Detoxification Center Diagnosis or Classification Center Diagnostic Commitment Dilated Discharge Discrepancy Dismissal Discretion Disposition Disposition Hearing Disturbing the Peace Diversion Duces Tecum Due Process of Law Easement Egregious Embezzlement Euthanasia Expectorate Expunge Extradition Fictitious Fraud Gambling Garnishment Good Time Grand Fathered Grand Jury Grant of Probation (Probation Order) Grant of Supervised Probation Habeas Corpus Habitual Habitual Offender (Habitual Criminal) Hearing Heroin Highway Hijacking Hitchhiking Homicide Hung Jury Illegal Search and Seizure Impeachment Indigent Intersection Incest Inchoate Offense (Anticipatory Offense) Included Offense (Lesser Included Offense) Incompetent to Stand Trial Indecent Exposure Indeterminate Sentence Indictment Intoxication Jail Joinder Judge Pro Tem Jurisdiction Jury Panel Jury Poll Jury Sentencing Juvenile Juvenile Court Juvenile Court Judgment Juvenile Disposition Juvenile Facility Juvenile Justice Agency Juvenile Petition Kidnapping Larceny Law-Enforcement Officer Levy License Plate Lottery Machete Mafia Maggot Magistrate Magna Carta Magnate Malfeasance Malign Malnourished Manic-depressive Manipulated Mediation Miscellaneous Misdemeanor Mistrial Modification of Probation Modus Operandi Moped Morale Motion Motor Vehicle Theft Municipal Murder and Non-negligent Manslaughter Mutual Agreement Program Negligence Negligent Manslaughter New court commitment New trial Nolle Prosequi Notary Not guilty by reason of insanity No True Bill Nonresident Nullify Numbers Game (Policy) Obligation Obscure Obstruction Obstruction of Justice Occurrence Odor Offender Offensive Offenses known to police Original Jurisdiction Operator or Driver Opiate Opinion Ordinance Organized Crime Paddy wagon Pander Panel of Judges Pardon Parole Parole agency Parolee Parole Officer Parole revocation Parole supervision Parole violation Paroling authority Paroling authority decisions Parties to offenses Paternal Patrol Passenger Car Passive resistance Pawn broker Pedestrian Peeping tom Penal code Penitentiary Penology Perpetrator Perimeter Perjury Perjury Perpetrator Perseverance Petition Petit Pervert Petition not sustained Plaintiff Plea Possession Pre-arraignment lockup Predicament Predisposition investigation Preliminary Hearing Prescription Pre-sentence investigation Presentment Presiding Judge Pretrial conference Pretrial detention Pretrial discovery Pretrial release Private Road or Driveway Private security agency Probable Cause Probate Probation Probation Agency Probationer Probation Officer Probation Revocation Probation Supervisory Caseload Probation with Jail Probation after Prison Probation Termination Probation Violation Profane Prosecute Prostitution Prosecution Agency Prosecutor Prosecutorial Screening Decision Prostitution Provisional Exit Psychopath Public Defender Pursuit Quarrel Query Rampage Ransacked Rape Reckless Recidivism Recidivist Recognizance Registration Reimburse Release to Parole Rendezvous Response Repossess Residential Commitment Resisting an Officer Respondent Restitution Revoke or Revocation Retribution Ricochet Rights of Defendant Riot Roadway Robbery Rubber stamp Runaway Sabotage Sacrifice Saliva Scapegoat Schedule Scheme School Scissors Search and Seizure Search Warrant Seduction Seize Self-Defense Sentence Sentence Credit Time Sentence Review Sentencing Hearing Sentencing Postponed Sequestration Sergeant Serious Misdemeanor Severance Sheriff Shoulder Simple Assault Smuggling Social injustice Socialization Socio-centric Sovereign immunity Speedy Trial Split Sentence Span of control Specimen Status Offense Statute of limitations Status offender Stay of Execution Stipulation Stop and Frisk Strangulation Straight Probation Street Crime Subordinate Substantive Law Suffocation Suppression Hearing Suspended Sentence Superego Surrogate Suspend or Suspension Suspicious Suppression Surety Surveillance Swastika Tangible Tattoo Technique Terrorized Testimony Testosterone Thieves Third degree Thorough Time Served Tongue Toxic Traffic Lane or Lane Transfer Hearing Truant Trusty Transsexual Trespassing Trial Truancy Truck True Bill Unaccompanied Unanimous Unchaste Unconscious Uniform Unlawful Unoccupied Usury Vagrancy Vagrant Vehicle Vengeance Venue Verdict Verify Vial Vice Violate Visible Voyeur Vulgar Vulnerable Wanton Warehouse Warrant Welfare White-collar White-Collar Crime Willies Wire-tap Witness (Expert) Writ Writ of Habeas Corpus Yield
