Criminal law jurisprudence

The English system of jurisprudence made its way to the United States with the original colonists.
Initially, the thirteen colonies unanimously adopted common law as the law of the land.
All crimes were common-law crimes, and cases determined criminal elements, defenses, and punishment schemes.

Apart from different types of jurisprudence, different schools of jurisprudence exist.
Formalism, or conceptualism, treats law like math or science.
Formalists believe that a judge identifies the relevant legal principles, applies them to the facts of a case, and logically deduces a rule that will govern the outcome of the dispute.

The word jurisprudence derives from the Latin term juris prudentia, which means "the study, knowledge, or science of law." In the United States, jurisprudence commonly means the philosophy of law.
Legal philosophy has many aspects, but four of them are the most common:.