Statutes defining criminal offenses connected to state security, espionage or public order, or expanding government investigative and enforcement power in their name. Belongs here: the Espionage Act of 1917, criminalizing interference with military recruitment and the disclosure of national-defense information; and the USA PATRIOT Act, expanding United States surveillance and law-enforcement authority after the September 11 attacks. Does not belong here: a statute whose primary subject is ordinary civil or economic regulation rather than security or criminal enforcement, grouped by its own subject instead.
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Defining CharacteristicCriminal law is the body of law that relates to crime; it proscribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and welfare of people. 1 Browse By
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1. Criminal law (Wikipedia)
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Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It proscribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and welfare of people, including oneself.
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