Contributors in Criminal

Criminal

sweating

Legal services; Criminal

The legal interrogation of a prisoner by use of threats or similar means to extort information.

crime

Legal services; Criminal

Breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.

adult offender

Legal services; Criminal

A person who has committed a crime after reaching the age of majority.

career offender

Legal services; Criminal

Under the federal-sentencing guidelines, an adult who, after being convinced of two violent felonies or controlled-substance felonies, commits another felony.

first offender

Legal services; Criminal

A person who authorities believe has committed a crime but has never before been convincted of a crime.

situational offender

Legal services; Criminal

A first-time offender who is unlikely to commit future crimes.

zero tolerance

Legal services; Criminal

Zero tolerance is a theory of policing that emphasises the need to deal with all criminal offences and incivility, however trivial, first, to convey a principled position that crime ought not to be ...

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