CRMINOLOGY

Actus reus – activity that transgresses moral or civil law.

Administrative law – the body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by
administrative agencies of government.
Alibi – proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it.
Collateral- accompanying; following as a consequence.
Concurrence – the property of two things happening at the same time.
Conspiracy- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act.
Corpus delicti - the body of evidence that constitute the offense.
Culpable – deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious.
Criminal law – the body of the law dealing with crimes and their punishment.
Common law – a law established by following earlier judicial.
Spionage – the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets.
Ex post facto- affecting things past.
Elements – violent or severe weather.
Defers – the act of guarding someone or something against attack
Estoppel – a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has
already been settled.
Excuse – a defense of some offensive behavior.
Entrapment – missing
Double jeopardy – the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offensive for which he has already been
tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the united states constitution.
Justification – the act of defending or explaining by reasoning.
Jurisprudence – the branch of philosophy concerned with the law.
Civil war – the legal code of ancient rome.
Felony – a serious crime, such as murder or asson.
Infraction – a violation of a law or rule.
Criminal negligence – (law) resklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at
risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the some consequences).

Inchoate – only partly in existence; emperfectly formed.

Misdemeanor – a crime, less serious than a felony.
Motive – the reason that answer anuses action toward a desire goal.
Law – the collection of rules improved by authority.
Statury law – the body of laws created by legislative statutes.
Rule of law – a state of order in which events conform to the law.
Penal code – the legal code governing crimes and their punishmen.
Precedent – an example that is used to justify similar accurences.
Substantive – having a firm basis in realy and therefore important.
Negligent – characterized by undue lack of attention or concern
Tazir crime – minor crimes committed by muslims .
Islamic law - the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and examples of
mohammed.
Vagrancy – the state of wondering from place to place.