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  1. criminal law
    the body of law dealing with offenses and their punishment
    The first civilizations generally did not distinguish between civil law and criminal law.
  2. deterrence
    a negative motivational influence
    Five objectives are widely accepted for enforcement of the criminal law by punishments: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation and restitution.
  3. legal code
    a code of laws adopted by a state or nation
    Around 2100-2050 BC Ur-Nammu, the Neo-Sumerian king of Ur, enacted the oldest written legal code whose text has been discovered: the Code of Ur-Nammu[1] although an earlier code of Urukagina of Lagash ( 2380-2360 BC ) is also known to have existed.
  4. civil law
    the legal code of ancient Rome
    The first civilizations generally did not distinguish between civil law and criminal law.
  5. death penalty
    putting a condemned person to death
    The Old Bailey in London (in 1808) was the venue for more than 100,000 criminal trials between 1674 and 1834, including all death penalty cases.The similarly significant Commentaries of Gaius on the Twelve Tables also conflated the civil and criminal aspects, treating theft or furtum as a tort.
  6. rehabilitation
    use of therapies to restore or improve physical function
    Five objectives are widely accepted for enforcement of the criminal law by punishments: retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation and restitution.
  7. penalty
    the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action
    The Old Bailey in London (in 1808) was the venue for more than 100,000 criminal trials between 1674 and 1834, including all death penalty cases.The similarly significant Commentaries of Gaius on the Twelve Tables also conflated the civil and criminal aspects, treating theft or furtum as a tort.
  8. Assault
    thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
    Assault and violent robbery were analogized to trespass as to property.
  9. corporal punishment
    the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
    Physical or corporal punishment may be imposed such as whipping or caning, although these punishments are prohibited in much of the world.
  10. Roman law
    the legal code of ancient Rome
    After the revival of Roman law in the 12th century, sixth-century Roman classifications and jurisprudence provided the foundations of the distinction between criminal and civil law in European law from then until the present time.[4]
  11. canon law
    the body of official rules governing the affairs of a church
    The special notion of criminal penalty, at least concerning Europe, arose in Spanish Late Scolasticism (see Alfonso de Castro), when the theological notion of God's penalty (poena aeterna) that was inflicted solely for a guilty mind, became transfused into canon law first and, finally, to secular criminal law.[6]
  12. jurisdiction
    the territory within which power can be exercised
    Capital punishment may be imposed in some jurisdictions for the most serious crimes.
  13. capital punishment
    putting a condemned person to death
    Capital punishment may be imposed in some jurisdictions for the most serious crimes.
  14. banishment
    exclusion or rejection from a place or group
    The death penalty or banishment have served the same purpose.
  15. murdered
    killed unlawfully
    People submit to the law to receive the right not to be murdered and if people contravene these laws, they surrender the rights granted to them by the law.
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