Assault is an offence under s. 266 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

The Criminal Code of Canada describes Assault as a dual offence ( indictable or summary offence ).

The Criminal Code Act ( chapter 29 of Part V ; sections 351 to 365 ) creates a number of offences of assault.

The Queensland Criminal Code of 1899 ( sect.

This definition is taken from that in the English Criminal Code Bill of 1880, cl.

* IRS Criminal Investigation Division, which investigates violations of the U. S. Internal Revenue Code

Criminal offences are found within the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal / provincial laws, with the exception that contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada.

* Criminal Code of Canada, criminal law

Such protection is provided by provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure rather than by the Constitution.

The Australian Federal Government is considering changes to the Australian Criminal Code that would classify any plants containing any amount of DMT as " controlled plants ".

It is outlawed in New Zealand and in all Australian states and territories, and is a crime under section 268 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

A standardized jurisdiction for Saxony created the Criminal Code of 1836.

The Criminal Code ( 1931 )

Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin.

Under the Criminal Code of Canada the writ is largely unavailable if a statutory right of appeal exists, whether or not this right has been exercised.

In Canada, advocating genocide or inciting hatred against any ' identifiable group ' is an indictable offence under the Criminal Code of Canada with maximum prison terms of two to fourteen years.

The criminal law in India is derived from the colonial-era British system and is codified in the Criminal Procedure Code ( CrPC ).

Because the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure ( set to enter into force in 2011 ) does not provide for jury trials or lay judges, however, they are likely to be abolished in the near future.

* Penn Law School Students Help Draft a Criminal Code for the Maldives, from the University of Pennsylvania website

It was written by Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach as part of the Bavarian Criminal Code in 1813.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Criminal law, which is uniform throughout Canada, is based on the common law as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada.

* Criminal Intelligence Service Canada

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Reacting to fears of Communist subversion, Bennett invoked the controversial Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

For summary conviction offences that fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government ( which includes all criminal law ), section 787 of the Criminal Code of Canada specifies that, unless another punishment is provided for by law, the maximum penalty for a summary conviction offence is a sentence of 6 months of imprisonment, a fine of $ 5, 000 or both.

* Police do not require a warrant to arrest under an indictable offence: see S. 495 ( 1 )( a ) Criminal Code of Canada

Section 322 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Code of Canada provides the general definition for theft in Canada:

Youth criminal laws in Canada underwent major changes resulting in the Youth Criminal Justice Act ( YCJA ) which went into effect on 1 April 2003.

Section 380 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Code of Canada provides the general definition for fraud in Canada:

As the national police force of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is primarily responsible for enforcing federal laws throughout Canada, while general law and order including the enforcement of the Criminal Code and applicable provincial legislation is constitutionally the responsibility of the provinces and territories.

The Youth Criminal Justice Act defines a serious violent offence as an offence in the commission of which a young person causes or attempts to cause serious bodily harm.

The United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter defined the term ' terrorism ' as consisting of " Criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.

Criminal threatening ( or threatening behavior ) is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.

The key amendment to the Criminal Code reads as follows: " 217. 1 Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task.

Criminal threatening is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.

Criminal penalties for victimless crimes not only create a lucrative black market, but also imprison millions for acts that harm no one else, while destroying their employability and feeding a vicious and politically entrenched prison industry.

** See more fully the discussion in Dennis J. Baker, The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority ( Ashgate, 2011 < http :// www. ashgate. com / isbn / 9781409427650 >) where Professor Baker argues ( in chapter 5 ) that there is a limit to consensual harm doing — but that the threshold of harm has to be reasonably high.

A Therapeutic Abortion Committee ( commonly known as a TAC ) refers to a Canadian committee of three medical doctors who would decide whether an abortion fit an exemption to the Criminal Code of Canada, which only permitted lawful abortion if continuation of a pregnancy would cause a woman medical harm.

This means that sections 227 and 228 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 ( which relate to extended sentences ) apply where a person is convicted of an offence under section 20, committed after the commencement of section 227 or 228 ( as the case may be ) and the court considers that there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission by the offender of further specified offences.

In R. v. Malmo-Levine, the Supreme Court rejected the claim that an element of " harm " was a required component of all criminal offences, which in the circumstances of the case would have removed marijuana offences from Criminal law.

Although the normal maximum sentence is ten years, offenders deemed to present a " significant risk " of " serious harm " to the public can now receive a life sentence under the Criminal Justice Act 2003.