How to pass criminal law

Congress is the lawmaking branch of the federal government.
Learn how a bill becomes a law and how the process is different in the House of Representatives and in the Senate.
A bill to create a new law can be introduced in either chamber of Congress by a senator or representative who sponsors it.

As New England Law | Boston Professor Victor Hansen puts it, criminal law is basically our saying, “the conduct you engaged in was outside of what we as a society approve, and therefore you should receive our societal condemnation.” .