Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Criminal Law

A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Criminal Laws
  • Law, Criminal
  • Laws, Criminal
  • Criminal Justice
  • Justice, Criminal

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify state or country

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History Note

91(78); was see under JURISPRUDENCE 1978-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Jurisprudence (1966-1977)

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  1. I01w.198w.290w
  2. I01w.880w.604.583w.100w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Criminal Law. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003416. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003416
  2. Criminal Law. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law
  3. Criminal Law. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146491