Justice Vocabulary

Fair behavior or treatment.

• Penitentiary

• Witness

• Inmate

• Justice

The central government of the U.S. that has power over all the states.

• Federal

• Evidence

• Facility

• Jury

Not of primary importance.

• Defendant

• Circumstantial

• Jury

• Penitentiary

A person who has seen an event.

• Inmate

• Justice

• Maximum

• Witness

Bring a person back to a positive condition.

• Coercion

• Exoneration

• Rehabilitation

• Prosecution

A prison.

• Penitentiary

• Federal

• Rehabilitation

• Verdict

The act of persuading or convincing someone to do something using force or other unethical means.

• Federal

• Circumstantial

• Coercion

• Defendant

The conducting of criminal proceedings in court against a person.

• Defendant

• Prosecution

• Verdict

• Jury

A person being sued or accused of a crime.

• Jury

• Witness

• Inmate

• Defendant

A person serving time in a prison.

• Inmate

• Jury

• Justice

• Minimum