List of international public law topics:This is a comprehensive list of pages dealing with public international law, i.e. those areas of law dealing with the United Nations System and the Law of Natio ...
Alphabetical lists These lists are pan-jurisdictional.R v LawrenceR. v. SmithBy topic List of cases involving Lord DenningList of class action lawsuitsList of copyright case lawList of environmental l ...
Main article: History of criminal justicePrisoners at a whipping post in a Delaware prison, c. 1907The modern criminal justice system has evolved since ancient times, with new forms of punishment, add ...
The functional study of criminal justice is distinct from criminology, which involves the study of crime as a social phenomenon, causes of crime, criminal behavior, and other aspects of crime. It emer ...
Definition The criminal justice system consists of three main parts: (1) Legislative (create laws); (2) adjudication (courts); and (3) corrections (jails, prisons, probation and parole). In the crimin ...
Main article: LawLaw is a system of rules usually enforced through a set of institutions. The purpose of law is to provide an objective set of rules for governing conduct and maintaining order in a so ...
In the United States, criminal justice policy has been guided by the 1967 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, which issued a ground-breaking report "The Challenge ...
Criminal justice is the system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal pe ...
The main institutions of law in industrialised countries are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the military and police, bureaucratic organisation, the legal pro ...
Main article: JurisprudencePhilosophy Main article: Philosophy of law"But what, after all, is a law? When I say that the object of laws is always general, I mean that law considers subjects en masse ...
Main article: Legal historyKing Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, also revered as the god of justice.The history of law connects closely to the development of ...
Main article: Legal systems of the worldIn general, legal systems can be split between civil law and common law systems. The term "civil law" referring to a legal system should not be confused with "c ...
Main articles: Definition of law and Analytical jurisprudenceWhether it is possible or desirable to define law There have been many attempts to produce "a universally acceptable definition of law". By ...
Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition, but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavio ...
