Terms-Criminology

 Law

The collection of rules imposed by authority.

 Statutory law

The body of laws created by legislative statutes.

 Penal code

The legal code governing crimes and their punishment.

 Case law

A law established by following earlier judicial decisions.

 Common law

A law established by following earlier judicial decisions.

 Rule of law

A state of order in which events conform to the law.

 Jurisprudence

The branch of philosophy concerned with the law.

 Criminal law

The body of law dealing with offenses and their punishment.

 Civil law

The legal code of ancient Rome.

 Tort

A wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought.

 Precedent

An example that is used to justify similar occurrences.

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 Felony

A serious crime, such as murder or arson.

 Misdemeanor

A crime less serious than a felony.

 Offense

A failure to show regard for others.

 Infraction

A violation of a law or rule.

 Treason

A crime that undermines the offender's government.

 Espionage

The systematic use of spies to obtain secrets.

 Actus reus

Activity that transgresses moral or civil law.

Men’s rea

Criminal intent.

 Criminal negligence

(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk
of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences).

Concurrence

The property of two things happening at the same time.

Ex post facto

Affecting things past.

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 Elements

Violent or severe weather.

 Corpus delicti

the body of evidence that constitute the offence.

Islamic law

the code of religious law derived from the Quran.

Tazir crime

minor crimes committed by Muslims.

Defense

the act of guarding someone or something against attack.

 Alibi

proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it.

 Justification

the act of defending or explaining by reasoning.

Excuse

a defense of some offensive behavior.

Self-defense

the act of defending yourself.

Entrapment

Missing.

Missing

not able to be found.

 Double jeopardy
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prosecution of the same crime twice.

 Substantive

having a firm basis in reality and therefore important.

 Inchoate

only partly in existence; imperfectly formed.

 Culpable

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious.

 Collateral

accompanying; following as a consequence.

Estoppel

a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that
has already been settled.

Vagrant

a wanderer with no established residence or means of support.

 Conspiracy

a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act.

 Negligent

characterized by undue lack of attention or concern.

 Mitigate

lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of.

 Lewd

suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.

 Lascivious

driven by lust.
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 Duress

compulsory force or threat.

 Fraud

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.

 Conflagration

a very intense and uncontrolled fire.

 Inducement

a positive motivational influence.

 Incompetent

not qualified or suited for a purpose.

 Alter ego

a very close friend who seems almost a part of yourself.

 Exonerate
pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.
 Genocide
systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
Massacre
the savage and excessive killing of many people.
Retrieve
get or find back; recover the use of.

Inflict
impose something unpleasant.
 Proximity
the property of being close together.
 Prosecution
legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior.
 Attorney
a professional person authorized to practice law.
 Indentation
the space left between the margin and a line set in.
 Tissue
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part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells.

 Carrion
the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food.
 Conviction
an unshakable belief in something without need for proof.