Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.

" The common law crime of indecent assault was repealed by the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act, 2007, and replaced by a statutory crime of sexual assault.

" A Guide to Military Criminal Law notes that under the Alford plea, " the defendant concedes that the prosecution has enough evidence to convict, but the defendant still refuses to admit guilt.

* Issue: Effect of Alford Plea of Guilty, Issues In NY Criminal Law, Volume 4, Issue 11.

In England and Wales the common law offence of being a common barator was abolished by section 13 ( 1 )( a ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

Their recommendation was implemented by the Criminal Law Act 1967.

This was done by the Criminal Law Act 1967, which made all felonies ( except treason ) misdemeanours, and introduced a new system of classifying crimes as either " arrestable " and " non-arrestable " offences ( according to which a general power of arrest was available for crimes punishable by five years ' imprisonment or more ).

In their book Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics, James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter criticize hate crime legislation for exacerbating conflicts between groups.

See section 64 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.

See also section 14 ( a ) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and to try their perpetrators.

* Mackay, RD ( 1995 ) Mental Condition Defences in the Criminal Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

* " Legion " ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ), the eighteenth episode in the second season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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

All distictions between felony and misdemeanour were abolished by section 1 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967.

All distictions between felony and misdemeanour were abolished by section 1 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Law Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1967.

On June 19, 2011, Patti Smith made her television acting debut on the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, appearing in an episode called " Icarus ".

Plea bargaining was introduced in India by Criminal Law ( Amendment ) Act, 2005, which amended the Code of Criminal Procedure and introduced a new chapter XXI ( A ) in the code, enforceable from January 11, 2006, which affects cases in which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for 7 years ; however, offenses affecting the socio-economic condition of the country and offenses committed against a woman or a child below 14 are excluded.

* Plea bargaining comes into effect — India Law: A new chapter — Chapter XXI A — on ‘ plea bargaining ’ has been inserted in the Criminal Procedure Code ( 1973 )

As Minister of Justice, Pierre Trudeau was responsible for introducing the landmark Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, an omnibus bill whose provisions included, among other things, the decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults, the legalization of contraception, abortion and lotteries, new gun ownership restrictions as well as the authorization of breathalyzer tests on suspected drunk drivers.

He failed to reform industrial law by amending the Master and Servant Act, but he succeeded with the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act in 1881.

Queensberry then sent the evidence collected by his detectives to Scotland Yard, which resulted in Wilde being charged and convicted of gross indecency under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 and sentenced to two years ' hard labour.

Dismore spoke for three hours and 17 minutes to block a Conservative Private Member's Bill, the Criminal Law ( Amendment ) ( Protection of Property ) Bill, which he claimed amounted to " vigilante law.

Steve Bachmann, writing in the Quinnipiac Law Review, goes further ; he says that the Criminal Trials Clause of the Sixth Amendment, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Civil Jury Trial Clause of the Seventh Amendment all draw influence from the Petition of Right, primarily through the Massachusetts Body of Liberties.

Parliament passed the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act, raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen in that year.

The Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act created the offence of sexual assault, replacing a common-law offence of indecent assault.

The per curiam majority opinion overturned the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute, overruled Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 ( 1927 ), and articulated a new test — the " imminent lawless action " test — for judging what was then referred to as " seditious speech " under the First Amendment:

The Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters ) Amendment Act, 2007 repealed most of the remaining provisions of the 1957 act.

Lord George Hamilton recorded that when the government introduced the Criminal Law Amendment ( Ireland ) Bill in March 1887, which increased the authorities ' coercive powers, the Liberal Party opposed it.

The Criminal Procedure ( Amendment ) Rules 2009 / 2087 which came into effect on 5 October 2009, and replaced the Criminal Procedure Rules 2005, Pt 24 provides for post-charge questioning.

In this jurisdiction, a number of statutory measures have re-interpreted the right to silence, such as the Criminal Justice Act 1984, the Criminal Justice ( Drug Trafficking ) Act, 1998 and the Offences Against the State ( Amendment ) Act, 1998.

The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 introduced by Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government, decriminalized abortion, as long as a committee of doctors signed off that it was necessary for the physical or mental well-being of the mother.

The bill, known as the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, was passed on May 14, 1969, and provided for abortions when the health of the woman was in danger as determined by a three-doctor hospital committee.

* On 6 March 2007, McDowell apologised to the Dáil for omissions from an Act that he had enacted in 2006 on the protection of children from sex abusers in the Second Stage debate on the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences ) ( Amendment ) Bill 2007 in the Dáil, saying: " The primary purpose of this short Bill is to remedy an error in the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences ) Act 2006.

The Criminal Law Amendment Act is also passed, making picketing illegal.

In English law, s58 Children Act 2004, limits the availability of the lawful correction defense to common assault under s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988.

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

Confusingly, the terms " assault " and " common assault " often encompass the separate offence of battery, even in statutory settings such as s 40 ( 3 )( a ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

; Assault on a prison custody officer: This offence is created by section 90 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( c. 53 ).

; Assault on a secure training centre custody officer: This offence is created by section 13 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ( c. 33 ).

The Criminal Justice ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1968 creates the offences of:

In England the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allowed such inferences to be made for the first time in England and Wales ( it was already possible in Scotland under the rule of criminative circumstances ).

The Criminal Justice Act of 1948 restricted imprisonment for juveniles and brought improvements to the probation and remand centres systems, while the passage of the Justices of the Peace Act of 1949 led to extensive reforms of magistrates courts.

See section 32 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

See section 77 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

See section 34 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

See section 32 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

This principle is incorporated in to the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and further elaborated in its Criminal Procedure Act.