Criminal law chapter 6 quizlet

Difference Between Civil Law and Criminal Law.
What marks a great difference between civil law and criminal law is the notion of punishment.
In criminal law, a defendant can be punished in three ways.
He can be punished by incarceration in jail or by imposing fine paid to the government or in rare cases by execution or by death penalty.

Criminal law is the body of rules and statutes defining the offences against the community at large.
It regulates how suspects are investigated, charged and tried.
The law also provides the punishments for convicted offenders.
This is also termed as penal law.