WorksheetsMORE Unit 8 Vocabulary
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Confesion
b)
Conffesion
c)
Confession
d)
Connfession
2.
Choose the correct spelling.
a)
Custody
b)
Cusstody
c)
Custoddy
d)
Custodee
3.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Detenton
b)
Detention
c)
Detenchon
d)
Detintion
4.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Fellony
b)
Feloney
c)
Felonee
d)
Felony
5.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Misdemenor
b)
Misdemeaner
c)
Misdemeanor
d)
Missdemeanor
6.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Parole
b)
Paroll
c)
Parolle
d)
Parol
7.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Penitentary
b)
Penitentiary
c)
Penitentery
d)
Penetentiary
8.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Pllea
b)
Plae
c)
Plee
d)
Plea
9.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Probation
b)
Probbation
c)
Probaton
d)
Probbation
10.
Choose the correct spelling:
a)
Sentence
b)
Sentense
c)
Sentnce
d)
Sentnece
11.
When the judge announced the suspect's _______ of two years in prison, the young man began to cry.
a)
Misdemeanor
b)
Plea
c)
Sentence
d)
Confession
12.
Because stealing a candy bar is only a ______ in SC, Christine only spent one night in jail.
a)
Misdemeanor
b)
Penitentiary
c)
Felony
d)
Detention
13.
When the police responded to a 911 call, they ended up taking the woman's son into ______.
a)
Parole
b)
Misdemeanor
c)
Confession
d)
Custody
14.
The judge told the defendant that if she wrote a ______ and told the details of the crime, she would be given less time in jail.
a)
Custody
b)
Plea
c)
Confession
d)
Probation
15.
Because the youth had been charged with selling drugs, the judge ordered him to remain in _____ until his trial.
a)
Penitentiary
b)
Sentence
c)
Confession
d)
Detention
16.
When the prisoner behaved well in prison, the judge decided to allow him to get out early on ____.
a)
Parole
b)
Plea
c)
Confession
d)
Custody
17.
The ______ only allowed visitors to see inmates on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
a)
Sentence
b)
Felony
c)
Misdemeanor
d)
Penitentiary
18.
The judge told the youth that he could only give a ____ of guilty or not guilty.
a)
Plea
b)
Misdemeanor
c)
Custody
d)
Sentence
19.
Instead of jail time, the youth was given 12 months of _____ and 500 hours of community service.
a)
Parole
b)
Misdemeanor
c)
Probation
d)
Plea
20.
When Jordan and his friends robbed a bank, they didn't know they had committed a _____.
a)
misdemeanor
b)
felony
c)
detention
d)
confession
21.
a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony
a)
detention
b)
misdemeanor
c)
sentence
d)
confession
22.
a formal, usually written, acknowledgment of guilt by a person accused of a crime
a)
detention
b)
probation
c)
felony
d)
confession
23.
a defendant's answer to a legal declaration or charge
a)
plea
b)
parole
c)
probation
d)
felony
24.
an authoritative decision; a judicial judgment or decree, especially the judicial determination of the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted criminal
a)
detention
b)
felony
c)
custody
d)
sentence
25.
a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders
a)
penitentiary
b)
sentence
c)
detention
d)
confession
26.
maintenance of a person in custody or confinement, especially while awaiting a court decision
a)
detention
b)
confession
c)
probation
d)
sentence
27.
a method of dealing with offenders, especially young persons guilty of minor crimes or first offenses, by allowing them to go at large under supervision of a probation officer
a)
detention
b)
plea
c)
probation
d)
confession
28.
imprisonment; legal restraint
a)
parole
b)
felony
c)
sentence
d)
custody
29.
the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed
a)
parole
b)
custody
c)
plea
d)
felony
30.
an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year
a)
felony
b)
misdemeanor
c)
parole
d)
sentence
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