JusticeStudies

The criminal law of a political jurisdiction

Applied to all persons regardless of social status

Providing strict definitions of specific arts

Violations of rules made by the state

First document imposed on by a king by his subjects, Limits power and protects their rights, place checks on royal power, settle disputes

Seizing or taking of a person into custody

Written order from a court directing law enforcement officers to conduct a search or to arrest a person

Violation of the civil law

Decisions that forms a potential basis for deciding the outcomes of similar cases in the future

Law developed by the judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals that decide individual cases

Amount of proof necessary for a reasonable intelligent person to believe a crime has been committed

Laws that prohibit and penalize murder, rape, robbery, and other crimes

Formal means of social control that uses rules, interpreted and enforced by the courts to set limits to the conduct of the citizens

Crime between two people, A means of resolving conflicts between individuals

Explorations or inspections

Laws that are concerned with due process of law

Subject to punishment or threatened punishment by the state

Taking of persons or property into custody in response to violations of the criminal law

-Due process and rights of citizens - All persons born in the US are citizens - This amendment gave citizenship to African American and Nati

-People accused of serious crimes must first be indicted by a grand jury before being tried - People cannot be forced to testify against the

-Right to a fair trial - Must be told what crimes they are being charged with - Have the right to a speedy and public trial - Have the right

- A person found guilty can not receive cruel or unusual punishment - Excessive bail and excessive fines cannot be charged

- Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures requires a warrant if there is a probable cause or reason to believe that a search will produ