PRACTICE 2

NAME: Juan Viscarra Cruz GRADE: 2º B

READING COMPREHENSION
CRIMINAL LAW

Concept .- criminal law is a discipline that has its own objectives, purposes and methods, referring
to the realization of the penalty or sanction imposed on the individual, who has committed an illegal
act, which in legal terms constitutes the crime.
Elements of criminal law.- in the oldest laws penalties were associated with two fundamental
elements. Crime pain.
Today most of the criminal codes adopt a tripartite position taking into account
 Crime
 Pain
 Offender
Auxiliary sciences of criminal Law
The criminalist: classify the crime by seeking human identification through fingerprints.
The criminalist: determines the states criminal policy and collects the numbers of crimes committed.
Legal Medicine: uses all medical sciences to answer legal questions.
Forensic Psychiatrist: is the study of the psyche of the accused or the victim of a crime.
Legal Chemistry: applied to the analysis of the existence of poisons or others.
Penology: it is the science of sorrows, which understands both the theoretical face of it and the
practice that is of great interest today.
The Criminal Policy: it is the science of criminal law, through it the state determines in what ways
it should perform in its punitive laws for the best fulfillment of its purposes.

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

1. What is criminal Law?

R. The criminal law is a discipline that has its own objectives, purposes and methods, referring to the
realization of the penalty or sanction imposed on the individual, who has committed an illegal act,
which in legal terms constitutes the crime

2. Which in legal terms is called, when somebody has committed crime?

R. Crime

3. What are the elements of the criminal law?

R. Crime, Pain and Offender
4. What is the legal medicine do in criminal law?
R. Uses all medical sciences to answer legal questions.

5. How is called when applied to the analysis of poisons or others?

R. Legal Chemistry

6. What is the criminal policy?

R. It is the science of criminal law, through it the state determines in what ways it should perform in
its punitive laws for the best fulfillment of its purposes.