The agreement between two groups to fulfill a contract.
What is contract law?
100
Any deed that hurts society or people and breaks a criminal law.
What is a crime?
100
To correct someone.
What is rehabilitation?
100
To do something without argument.
What is to be compliant?
100
Civil law that includes wrong actions that cause injury to another person or damage to his or her property.
What is personal injury?
200
Rules that must be obeyed in buying and selling a building or land.
What is property law?
200
A document that lists the state’s criminal laws and the punishments that can be given to those found guilty of a crime.
What is a penal code?
200
Young people who commit crimes.
What is juvenile delinquents?
200
Punishments given to those who commit a crime.
What is a sentence?
200
An early release from prison.
What is parole?
300
An area of civil law that includes rules applied to family relationships.
What is family law?
300
Minor crimes for which a person can be fined a small amount of money or jailed for up to a year.
What is a misdemeanor?
300
Young people who have committed acts that would be crimes if committed by adults.
What is delinquent offenders?
300
1. To punish the person. 2. To protect society by locking up the person. 3. To serve as a warning to other criminals. 4. To help criminals change their behavior.
What is the goal of punishment?
300
An agreement between two or more groups to trade something of value.
What is a contract?
400
Careless and reckless behavior.
What is negligence?
400
Crimes that are punishable by more than one year in prison and are more serious.
What is a felony?
400
Those who have committed acts that would not be crimes if done by adults.
What is a status offender?
400
The person who is accusing.
What is a plaintiff?
400
When the lawyers on the separate sides asks the witnesses on each side (after they testify) questions. The second set of questions is called cross-examination.
What is cross-examination?
500
A document that tells the defendant they’re being sued and when the court date is.
What is a summons?
500
When the prosecution decides to charge the defendant with a less serious crime in exchange for a plea of guilty.
What is plea bargaining?
500
Detention hearing, adjudication hearing, and disposition hearing.