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law (corpus of rules) > law branch > criminal law

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criminal law  

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  • That body of the law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government.

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/1862

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