What does criminal law mean?
Definitions for criminal law
crim·i·nal law
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Princeton's WordNet
criminal lawnoun
the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment
Wiktionary
criminal lawnoun
The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment.
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Criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self. Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature. Criminal law includes the punishment and rehabilitation of people who violate such laws. Criminal law varies according to jurisdiction, and differs from civil law, where emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation, rather than on punishment or rehabilitation. Criminal procedure is a formalized official activity that authenticates the fact of commission of a crime and authorizes punitive or rehabilitative treatment of the offender.
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criminal law
Criminal law is a system of law concerned with acts or omissions defined as crimes by the government, providing the punishment to be imposed on people who commit such crimes. It involves regulations and statutes that define conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or endangering to people's safety, health, property, or moral welfare. Its main purpose is to maintain social order by preventing behavior that could harm individuals or society at large. Criminal law is enforced by the state, unlike civil law which involves private disputes.
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Criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It regulates social conduct and proscribes threatening, harming, or otherwise endangering the health, safety, and moral welfare of people. It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws. Criminal law differs from civil law, whose emphasis is more on dispute resolution and victim compensation than on punishment.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Criminal Law
A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of criminal law in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of criminal law in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of criminal law in a Sentence
You have prepared a criminal law, because it deprives a human being of humanity, a living, conceived human being.
Because almost all the laws are so new, law enforcement are still getting the hang of how to apply them, at our firm, we have so many cases where (complainants) go to law enforcement and are turned away, even in states that have the criminal law.
If somebody picks up a chair with the intent of bashing your head in, that should be a crime. Do we need a chair-specific criminal law ? I don't think so.
Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten:
While Pasquotank County District Attorney concluded that no criminal law was violated, this was a terrible and tragic outcome, and we could do better.
Was that a waste of time? he asked. When young Cierra Cowden had the courage to take the stand and talk about how she missed waking up to her dad's singing: was that a waste of time? When Sandy Phillips got up and told the jury about Jessica's enthusiasm for life: was that a waste of time? When Tom Sullivan, a man with a larger than life personality, got up and broke down on the stand talking about his close friendship with his son, was that a waste of time? Samour pointed out that with no appeals in sight, this trial has officially wrapped up in just over 3 years, saying that's record time for a death penalty case. Is prison really a much less severe sentence than death? he asked. Holmes will die in the custody of the department of corrections. Samour told the victims that there are no words to adequately describe what they've gone through. I've been doing criminal law for 2 decades and before this case I'd never seen a police officer or first responder break down on the witness stand.
Translations for criminal law
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- strafregAfrikaans
- trestní právoCzech
- strafferetDanish
- StrafrechtGerman
- derecho penalSpanish
- rikoslaki, rikosoikeusFinnish
- droit pénal, droit criminelFrench
- derecto criminalInterlingua
- hegningarlög, refsilög, refsirétturIcelandic
- diritto penaleItalian
- 刑法Japanese
- 刑法, 형법Korean
- strafrechtDutch
- direito penal, direito criminalPortuguese
- dreptul penalRomanian
- уголовное правоRussian
- straffrättSwedish
- luật hình sựVietnamese
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