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Descriptor English: Criminal Law
Descriptor Spanish: Derecho Penal
Descriptor derecho penal
Entry term(s) derecho criminal
Scope note: Rama del derecho que define las infracciones penales, regula el arresto, la acusación y el juicio de los sospechosos, y fija las sanciones y penas aplicables a los delincuentes convictos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Direito Penal
Descriptor French: Droit pénal
Entry term(s): Criminal Justice
Criminal Laws
Justice, Criminal
Law, Criminal
Laws, Criminal
Tree number(s): I01.198.290
I01.880.604.583.100
SP9.242.569.299
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003416
Scope note: A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.
Annotation: specify state or country
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Jurisprudence (1966-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under JURISPRUDENCE 1978-90
History Note: 91(78); was see under JURISPRUDENCE 1978-90
Related: Law Enforcement MeSH
DeCS ID: 3434
Unique ID: D003416
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/22
Revision Date: 2002/07/03
Criminal Law - Preferred
Concept UI M0005325
Scope note A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.
Preferred term Criminal Law
Entry term(s) Criminal Laws
Law, Criminal
Laws, Criminal
Criminal Justice - Narrower
Concept UI M0005326
Preferred term Criminal Justice
Entry term(s) Justice, Criminal



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