Synonyms for criminal law
crim·i·nal law

Princeton's WordNet

1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

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1. Carrie Goldberg:

   Because almost all the laws are so new, law enforcement are still getting the hang of how to apply them, at our firm, we have so many cases where (complainants) go to law enforcement and are turned away, even in states that have the criminal law.

2. Vicki Behenna:

   I understand criminal law, but I was not familiar at all with the UCMJ.

3. Catherine Hanssens:

   If somebody picks up a chair with the intent of bashing your head in, that should be a crime. Do we need a chair-specific criminal law ? I don't think so.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   He is a criminal law professor who stood in the well of the Senate and talked about how law never inquires into intent and that we should not be using the presidents intent as part of understanding impeachment, criminal law is all about intent. Mens rea is the heart of criminal law. Thats the very basis of it. So it makes his whole presentation just nonsensical. I truly could not follow it.

5. Norval Morris:

   The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.