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Crimes, Criminals and Crime Statistics: Introduction to Exercise 6 - The criminal justice system

What You Will Learn

The following exercise deals with:

Criminal justice and the disciplines that it is based on:
  • Criminology
  • Criminal procedure
  • Criminal law
  • Constitutional law
Three major categories of U.S. criminal law:
  • Common law
  • Statutory law
  • Case law


Key Terms


case law
civil law
common law
constitutional law
criminal justice



criminal law
criminal procedure
criminology

statute
statutory law

Click on a term for the definition and Spanish translation.


What You Will Do

Complete the passages by dragging terms from the given list and dropping them in the right spaces. Correct answers will remain in the text, and incorrect choices will go back to the list of terms.
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