Advantages of Laws on Crime There is a need for a prescription of a code of conduct and behavior in any societal and or organizational setting. These prescriptions of conduct and behavior will enable in regulating the individual and society at large towards achieving a generally acceptable code of relations. It is these prescribed forms of conduct established by a community as applicable to its people that are referred to as laws. Professionally these are further segmented into various categories such as Civil Law, Criminal Law, Personal Injury Law, et cetera. Criminal Law and its application will be of our interest in this particular article. As we mentioned in the introductory section, the purpose of law is to regulate the conduct of members of a society in an alignment with generally accepted standards and or principles. A crime may be defined as an act that may cause harm or disgust to an individual or community. The body of laws that are concerned with the enforcement of these laws and subsequent punishment of those in violation of such laws is collectively known as Criminal Law. Among some of the issues in the society that are addressed by criminal law are rape, murder, theft and many others. Criminal Law thus is established to help deter individuals in a society from the commission of such wrongful acts. These laws, therefore, serve to improve and enhance order within the state or society and spill-over effect in its improved security status. Crimes are not of a similar nature in the legal sense, and as such we can say that they come in sorts and varied sorts from a legal perspective. There are those crimes that cause direct bodily harm such as cases of murder and manslaughter while others involve property rights and their violation such as arson and theft. In the second sense we may be looking at situations whereby a rightful owner of a property is denied by some other person the enjoyment of his or her property. Theft being the offence and outlawed by law, the party in commission of the offence would stand liable before the law. Arson and burglary are some of the examples of the other acts that constitute a crime and would as such attract a criminal charge.
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While doing legislation for Criminal Laws, the organs mandated with such tasks often recommend punishment for the violation of such laws as prescribed in the penal code. Offences which are criminal in nature carry a variety of punishment most often depending on the magnitude and nature of such offence. Depending on the type and magnitude of the offense in the charge, the sentences awarded for criminal offenses in Criminal Law would always vary from case to case and charge to charge as some would end in the death penalty and some in a jail-term sentencing.5 Lessons Learned: Professionals
