| A | B |
|---|
| culpability | guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness |
| legislator | a person who gives or makes laws |
| propaganda | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| advocate | a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc. |
| retroactive | applying or referring to the past |
| constitutionally | the quality of being constitutional |
| restorative justice | a method of dealing with convicted criminals in which they are urged to accept responsibility for their offences through meeting victims, making amends to victims or the community, etc. |
| prosecute | to institute legal proceedings against (a person) |
| presupposed | to take for granted; assume |
| rehabilitation | to help (a person who has acquired a disability or addiction or who has just been released from prison) to readapt to society or a new job, as by vocational guidance, retraining, or therapy |
| repudiate | to reject as having no authority or binding force |
| pantomime | significant gesture without speech |
| plea agreement | an agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor |
| parricide | the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative |
| petition | a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit |
