Law criminal
Criminal
law, the body of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the
apprehension, charging, and trial of suspected persons, and fixes penalties and
modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.
Criminal law is only one of the devices by which
organized societies protect the security of individual interests and ensure the
survival of the group. There are, in addition, the standards of conduct
instilled by family, school, and religion; the rules of the office and factory;
the regulations of civil life enforced by ordinary police powers; and the
sanctions available through tort actions. The distinction between criminal law
and tort law is difficult to draw with real precision, but in general one may
say that a tort is a private injury whereas a crime is conceived as an offense
against the public, although the actual victim may be an individual.
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