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. Law
criminal 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.
1. Features of Criminal Law
2. Functions of Criminal Law
3. Justifications of Criminal Law
4. The Limits of Criminal Law
5. Criminal Responsibility
6. Criminal Procedure and Evidence
Related Entries This article treats the principles of
criminal law. For treatment of the law of criminal procedure, see procedural
law: Criminal procedure.
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