criminal law and civil law-- introduction to law and criminal law

Criminal Law and Civil Law

A little introduction

Why do we need laws?

Let’s study simple societies

Why do we need laws?

They had resourcesAlso there were many other groups

Why do we need laws?

Fight over resources; disagreements over lands

Why do we need laws?

Or maybe fight over womanOr man

Why do we need laws?

That is how crude societies were

Why do we need laws?

So, simple rules must be established to get more resources, acquire a better territory,

and protect the members of the group

Why do we need laws?simple rules like:

Why do we need laws?

Because of these simple rules they were able to survive as a group or as neighbors

Question?

What is law?

We need laws to prevent these things from happening:

We need law to protect us from ourselves and from others

Question on the introduction?

Let us stat with Criminal and civil laws

Criminal laws

What is Criminal law?Criminal Law deals with acts of intentional harm to individuals but which, in a larger sense, are offences against us all.

It is a crime to break into a home because the act not only violates the privacy and safety of the home's occupants - it shatters the collective sense that we are secure in our own homes.

What is Criminal law?

Criminal law is the law that deals with those

actions that have been declared illegal-- crimes.

A guilty defendant is punished by either

incarceration in a jail or fine paid, or, in

exceptional cases the death penalty.

What is Criminal law?Criminal activity

occurs at both personal and

business levels.

Criminal acts include burglary,

assault; drug trafficking, theft and

murder. Criminal acts by businesses

include fraud, industrial espionage

and tax evasion.

What is a crime?

A crime is a deliberate or reckless act that causes harm to another person or another person's property, and it is also

a crime to neglect a duty to protect others from harm.

For someone to be convicted of a crime, it must be proven that a crime was committed and, for most

offences, that the person meant to commit the crime.

For instance, striking another person is the crime of assault but it is only a crime if the blow was

intentional.

Questions on Criminal Law?