| PRELAW | Track for many criminal-justice majors |
| STATE | Start of many criminal case names |
| MAYAMOORE | Minnesota Lynx star who retired to fight for criminal justice reform |
| LAWAND | - -- Order, title of a US franchise that deals with many aspects of the criminal justice system (3,3) |
| PENALCODE | Place done up? It determines criminal justice (5,4) |
| REPEATOOFFFFEENNDDEERRSS | Criminal justice concern |
| CAUSE | Criminal justice reform, e.g. |
| PLEA | Kind of deal targeted by criminal-justice advocacy |
| LAWANDORDER | Strict enforcement of criminal justice (3,3,5) |
| PROBATIONOFFICER | *Criminal justice supervisor |
| PENAL | Pertaining to the criminal justice system |
| NOBAIL | Goal of some criminal justice advocacy groups |
| NCIC | Criminal justice database, init. |
| COMMITTEE | E.g. Criminal Justice or Public Audit at Holyrood (9) |
| MEEKMILL | Rapper and co-chair of the criminal-justice organization the Reform Alliance |
| THENIGHTOF | 2016 US adaptation of BBC TV'S Criminal Justice, starring Riz Ahmed and John Turturro (3,5,2) |
| BRIDLEPATH | An equestrian's country cut-through for a canter, green way for a gallop, route for lead-reining, track for a trot or way for a walk (6,4) |
| PURCHASE | Up-turn is never ending and on track for those paying for it (8) |
| TRAINSET | Coach is fully prepared and is on track for what any boy could accept for the present (5,3) |
| PISTE | French word meaning "track" for a marked ski run of compacted snow; or, an area for fencing bouts (5) |
