Juvenile Justice: Understanding Key Vocabulary

When a person deliberately plans to kill another human being, it is usually deemed...

• 1st degree murder

• 2nd degree murder

• manslaughter

• attempted murder

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

When a death happens as a result of committing another crime, the offender will often be charged with...

• 2nd degree murder

• manslaughter

• attempted murder

• felony murder

to intend/intentional/intentionally

• to give someone a recommendation

• to add something to the conversation

• to do something on purpose

• to achieve a level of success

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

homicide

• giving help to someone running from the police

• killing someone, either intentionally or unintentionally; this includes accidents and murder

• Homosapien

• removing someone from jail

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

to charge/to be charged/charge

• to have enough battery power

• to give a false statement to the police

• to pay for something with a credit card

• to make an official statement that someone may be guilty of a crime

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

to try/to be tried/trial

• to examine and judge someone in a legal case in a court of law

• to test a theory

• to release a suspect on bail

• to have a lawyer present

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

prosecutor

• person who keeps the notes in a courtroom

• lawyer who argues that someone is not guilty of a crime

• lawyer who argues that someone is guilty of a crime

• lawyer who gives advice to the judge

defense attorney

• lawyer who argues that someone is innocent of a crime

• lawyer who argues that someone is guilty of a crime

• lawyer who gives statements to the press

• lawyer who gives advice to the judge

to rehabilitate/to be rehabilitated/rehabilitation

• to help someone become healthy and productive again

• to keep someone in jail for ten years or more

• to give someone a habit that is not good for them

• to habituate a person to the challenges of prison

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

to incarcerate/to be incarcerated/incarceration

• to lock someone up in jail, prison, or a juvenile facility

• to release someone from jail, prison, or a juvenile facility

• to give some one the keys to your car

• to describe the reasons someone could be convicted

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4