Outline of criminal justice

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to criminal justice:

Criminal justice – system of practices and institutions of governments directed at upholding social control, deterring and mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts.

Parts of the criminal justice system

1. Legislative system – network of legislatures that create laws.
2. Judiciary system – network of courts that interpret the law in the name of the state, and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.
3. Corrections system – network of governmental agencies that administer a jurisdiction's prisons, probation, and parole systems.

History of criminal justice

Main article: History of criminal justice

Crime

Crime –

• Organized crime –
  • Mafia –
• Violence –

Crimes

• Larceny –
• Trespass –

Misdemeanors

Misdemeanor – Jaywalking

Felonies

Felony –

• Arson –
• Assault –
• Bias crime –
• Burglary –
• Elder abuse –
• Embezzlement –
• Entrapment –
• Espionage –
• Forgery –
• Fear of crime –
• Hate crime –
• Kidnapping –
• Murder –
• Perjury –
• Prostitution –
• Rape –
• Robbery –
• Shoplifting –
• Terrorism –
• Theft –
• Treason –
• War crime –

General concepts in criminal justice

• Abuse defense –
• Actus reus –
• Administrative law –
• Affray –
• Arraignment –
• Arrest warrant –
• Attendant circumstances –
• Bail –
• Booking –
• Case law –
• Causation –
• Chain of custody –
• Citizen's arrest –
• civil law –
• Clearance rate –
• Common law –
• Concurrence –
• Concurrent sentence –
• Conflict model –
• Consecutive sentence –
• Command responsibility –
• Consensus model –
• Corpus delicti –
• Corrections –
• Creative lawyering –
• Crime –
• Crime control –
• Crime index –
• Criminal justice –
• Criminology –
• Death penalty –
• Defense (legal) –
• Defense of property –
• Denial of a speedy trial –
• Deterrence –
• Diminished responsibility –
• Diminished responsibility in English law –
• Double jeopardy –
• Due process –
• Evidentiary hearing –
• Excuse –
• Execution warrant –
• Grand jury –
• Ignorance of the law –
• Inchoate offense –
• Indictable offence –
• Indictment –
• Individual rights –
• Infraction –
• Innovative defense –
• Insanity defense –
• Islamic law –
• Jurisprudence –
• Jury instructions –
• Jury nullification –
• Jury trial –
• Justice –
• Justification –
• Kangaroo court –
• Law –
• Liability –
• Manslaughter –
• Manslaughter in English law –
• M'Naghten Rules –
• * Mens rea –
• Miranda Warning –
• Mistake –
• Motive –
• Motor vehicle theft –
• Murder in English law –
• Negligence –
• Obscenity –
• Offense –
• Pardon –
• Penal law –
• Peremptory pleas –
• Plea bargain –
• Precedent –
• Predator –
• Preliminary hearing –
• Prescription –
• Probable cause –
• Probation –
• Procedural defense –
• Prosecutorial misconduct –
• Provocation –
• Provocation in English law –
• Public order –
• Resisting unlawful arrest –
• Restorative justice –
• Selective prosecution –
• Self defense and defense of others –
• Sentence –
• Sharia –
• Social control –
• * Stare decisis –
• Star Chamber –
• Statutory law –
• Suicide –
• Summary offence –
• Trial –
• Trial by jury –
• Trial de novo –
• Warrant –
• Writ –
• Writ of Habeas Corpus –

Leaders in criminal justice

Main article: List of criminal justice notables