Synonyms for criminal law
crim·i·nal law

Princeton's WordNet

1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

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1. Paul Bender:

   You’re allowed to enforce criminal law in a way that’s efficient and this is just a way that it’s efficient. So, I just don’t see why there’s a constitutional problem.

2. Norval Morris:

   The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

3. Wicha Mahakun:

   The accused colluded to violate criminal law. The deal never happened. There was no government-to-government deal, the NACC has resolved to charge former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and Poom Sarapol, former deputy commerce minister, a total of 21 ministers and private sector employees.

4. Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten:

   While Pasquotank County District Attorney concluded that no criminal law was violated, this was a terrible and tragic outcome, and we could do better.

5. Paul Callan:

   In criminal law, the police can't wire somebody up. They have to give you Miranda warnings if they're going to take a statement from you, however, if a civilian is tape recording you, as was the case here with HBO, that's admissible in court if it's relevant to the crime committed.