Criminal Law

What is Criminal Law?

• a war between citizens of the same country

• a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.

• the law as established by the outcome of former cases.

• a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell,

What is Civil Law ?

• a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes

• the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

• the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs

• the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.

What Is the Constitution ?

• the law as established by the outcome of former cases.

• a written law passed by a legislative body.

• is a legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases when making a ruling on a similar current or future case

• a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed

Rules That Apply To Business Transactions

• Administrative

• Civil Law

• Business Law

• Criminal Law

The unlawful killing of one human being by another, without intending to do so

• justifiable homicide

• first degree murder

• second degree murder

• manslaughter

The party that accuses a person of a crime is known as the ___.

• defendant

• offender

• plaintiff

• protagonist

If a law enforcement officer induces a law-abiding citizen to commit a crime, the accused may claim

• self-defense
• entrapment
• endangerment
• insanity

The wrongful taking of another's property by a person who has been entrusted with that property is

• extortion
• robbery
• larceny
• embezzlement

The person being tried for a crime is the 

• defendant
• victim
• prosecutor
• villian

A crime that is less serious and has a less severe penalty than a felony is a (n) __________

• felony
• misdemeanor
• complaint
• assault