Commonly used words in legal English (general provisions of criminal law)

Criminal law criminal law; penal law

Criminology Criminology

Criminal psychology criminal psychology

Reform-through-labor labor reform law

History of Chinese criminal China criminal history law

Comparative Criminal Law Comparative Criminal Law

The criminal investigation of criminal detection

Forensic psychiatry forensic psychiatry

The crime punishment legal principle principal of a legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime

The crime punishment adapts the principle principal of suiting punishment to crime

Principle of culpability principal of bearing responsibility solely for one 's own crime

Principle of combining punishment with education principal of combining punishment with education

From the old the doctrine of observing old laws principle

From the new the doctrine of observing new laws principle

The doctrine of the doctrine of observing old laws and new ones when with lighter punishment

From the new and lighter the doctrine of observing new laws principle and old ones when with lighter punishment

The limitation of limitation of prosecution

Criminal liability/responsibility criminal responsibility

The age of criminal responsibility of age for criminal responsibility

Criminal responsibility criminal responsibility; capacity for criminal responsibility

Crime commit a crime crime

Intentional crime intentional crime; willful crime

Crime negligent negligent crime

Constitution of a crime constitute a crime

The subject of crime of subject of a crime

The object of the crime of object of a crime

The subjective aspect of crime of subjective elements of a crime

The objective aspect of crime objective elements of a crime

The crime object target of a crime

Criminal intent mens rea of intentional crime

Direct intentional actual intent; direct intent

Indirect intentional indirect intent

Criminal negligence of criminal negligence

Negligence of careless negligence

Overly self-confident fault negligence with undue assumption

Cannot preview unforeseeable; unpredictable

Can't avoid unavoidable

The motive for the crime of criminal motive

The criminal purpose criminal intent; criminal purpose

Excessive defense unjustifiable self-defense

Emergency Act of rescue; necessity

Completion of a crime accomplished crime

The attempted crime attempted crime

Criminal pattern crime

A crime in crime preparation; preparation for a crime

Expression for a crime expression of criminal intent

Abandonment/discontinuance of a crime discontinuation of a crime

Suspension of a crime suspension of crime

Acts committed behavioral offence

Potential damage offence dangerous crime

The results make consequential offence

The aggravated consequential offence aggregated consequential offence

On analogy

Conviction Declare sb. guilty; Convict sb. (of a crime)