Criminal Law Why is criminal law important? - Two basic functions
- Primary (legal) – maintain social order by protecting citizens from criminal harm
- Includes two harms – harm to individual citizen’s safety and property and harm to society’s interests collectively
- Secondary (social) – to maintain and teach
- Two goals
- Reflect values, morals and norms of society and teach expectations of society
- Sources of Criminal Law
Constitutional Law - Both federal and state governments have constitutions
- Law emerges from those constitutions
- “supreme law of the land”
- Basis of all law in the U.S.
- Laws that violate the Constitution are challenged at Supreme Court
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