CRIME, PUNISHMENT, LAW II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answer to each clue will be a word associated with crime, punishment, or law.

1. Willful negligence of official responsibilities

2. Fitting justice or punishment for a crime

3. Pay for or replace something stolen

4. Intensive questioning, sometimes violent, to enforce conformity

5. A person with a compulsion to steal

6. Non-physical, but compelling,  evidence surrounding a crime

7. The right of government to appropriate private property for public use

8. Deliberate setting of fires

9. Old-fashioned word for a legislator or lawmaker

10. A new place for a trial - to avoid local prejudices

Answers:

 

1. Dereliction (of duty)

2. Retribution

3. Restitution

4. Inquisition

5. Kleptomaniac

6. Circumstantial 

7. Eminent domain

8 Arson

9. Solon

10. Change of venue