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| Rules that are created and enforced by governments |
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| Beliefs about what is fair and what is right or wrong |
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| Breaking a law in non violent way because it goes against personal morals |
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| Written laws made by legislatures |
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| A body of law based on a judges decision |
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| A written colelction of laws often organized by subject |
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| Any beahviour that is illegal because the government considers it harmful to society |
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| The group of laws which acts are crimes and how they should be punished |
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| A serious crime for which the penalty for which the penalty could be imprisonment for more than one year |
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| A minor crime for which the penalty is often a fine |
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| The groups that help settle disagreements between people |
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| Placing someone in fear without actual physical contact |
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| Harming someone through physical contact as with a weapon |
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| The act of breaking int oa building with plans to do something illiegal |
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| Stealing money that has been entrusted to ones care |
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| Betraying once country by helping ones enemies or making war against it. |
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| Crimes in which people or groups of people use violence to get what they want form government or society |
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| A good reason to believe that a suspect has been involve din a crime. |
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| A legal docoument issued by a court giving police permission to search and seizure |
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| Money that a defendant gives a court as a kind of promise for them to return to court |
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| A formal charge against an accused person |
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| A court hearing in which the dendant is formally charged with a crime in which they plea of not guilty or no contest |
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| When a defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser charge or lighter sentence |
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| Letting an inmate go free to serve the rest of his/her sentence from prison under probation |
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| A Juvenile who is found guilty of a crime |
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| A youth who is judged to be beyond his or her control of his or her gaurdian |
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