criminal justice

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  1. statutory law
    the body of laws created by legislative statutes
  2. penal code
    the legal code governing crimes and their punishment
  3. case law
    a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
  4. procedural
    of or relating to processes
  5. civil law
    the legal code of ancient Rome
  6. tort
    a wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
  7. administrative law
    the body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government
  8. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  9. misdemeanor
    a crime less serious than a felony
  10. felony
    a serious crime, such as murder or arson
  11. treason
    a crime that undermines the offender's government
  12. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
  13. infraction
    a violation of a law or rule
  14. actus reus
    activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  15. mens rea
    criminal intent
  16. concurrence
    the property of two things happening at the same time
  17. ex post facto
    affecting things past
  18. corpus delicti
    the body of evidence that constitute the offence
  19. alibi
    proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it
  20. entrapment
    missing
  21. double jeopardy
    prosecution of the same crime twice
Created on Tue Jul 05 20:32:35 EDT 2011 (updated Tue Jul 05 20:52:43 EDT 2011)

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