Examples of criminal law

• By the criminal law a man could not be punished for the acts of another. 

• Here his chief work was the codification of the criminal law, which he carried out with great ability, and by which he wrote his name on the history of the empire. 

• In no two countries is the criminal law the same, and an act which is perfectly harmless when committed in one part of Europe, is considered in another as a contravention of the law. 

• We may pause a moment to glance at the provisions made by the criminal law for protecting women. 

• Your proposition is true only to the extent that the criminal law is invoked to protect property rights—and not life and liberty. 

• In contrast to tax law, the criminal law is there to prescribe modes of conduct that are not permissible.

• That issue is whether and why the criminal law is different from other legal techniques to influence behavior.

• Another strand of argument supports this analysis: one concerning the censuring role of the criminal law.

• This constraint is particularly apposite to the criminal law.

• I do not mean to suggest that all criminal law readily fits the injunction model.

• The absence of middle-class families from my sample reflects an equally longstanding rejection of recourse to criminal law in middle-class legal cultures.

• Such intent relates to the act which is a violation of the criminal law, which does not require the specific intent to violate the law.

• In contemporary criminal law the personality of the perpetrator is being considered important; it is not the act but the actor which is given priority.

• In each instance, housemaids and footmen threaten to surprise and disclose their employers' violations of social code and criminal law.

• Although the state might decide to criminalize hate speech, hate speech might be regulated without invoking the criminal law.

• And if necessary the criminal law must be invoked in the case of nonobservance of regulation.

• This view of punishment is distinct from the enlightened or scientific view that is often associated with the early nineteenth-century criminal law reformers.

• Further, there may be reasons to accept limited judicial discretion to reinterpret the scope of the criminal law to meet unanticipated circumstances.

• They also stress the responsibilities of legislators more broadly than their capacity to make criminal law.

• But if we did, that would be most unlike what we do in the criminal law ordinarily.