criminal law

English

Noun

criminal law (countable and uncountable, plural criminal laws)

1. (law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment.
2. (law) A specific statute, ordinance, regulation, or other source of law that deems an action to be a crime.

Coordinate terms

• civil law

Translations

area of law

• Afrikaans: strafreg
• Armenian: քրեական իրավունք (hy) (kʿreakan iravunkʿ)
• Breton: gwir kastizel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刑法 (zh) (xíngfǎ), 刑事法 (zh) (xíngshìfǎ)

• Czech: trestní právo n
• Danish: strafferet c
• Dutch: strafrecht (nl) n
• Finnish: rikosoikeus (fi)
• French: droit pénal (fr) m, droit criminel m
• German: Strafrecht (de) n
• Hindi: अपराधिक कानून (aprādhik kānūn)
• Icelandic: hegningarlög n pl, refsilög n pl, refsiréttur m
• Indonesian: hukum pidana (id)
• Interlingua: derecto criminal
• Italian: diritto penale (it)
• Japanese: 刑法 (ja) (けいほう keihō)
• Kazakh: қылмыстық құқық (qylmystyq qūqyq)
• Korean: 형법(刑法) (ko) (hyeongbeop)
• Malay: undang-undang jenayah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strafferett m

  Nynorsk: strafferett m

• Polish: prawo karne (pl) n
• Portuguese: direito penal (pt) m, direito criminal m
• Romanian: drept penal (ro) n
• Russian: уголо́вное пра́во n (ugolóvnoje právo)
• Spanish: derecho penal m
• Swedish: straffrätt (sv)
• Vietnamese: luật hình sự
• Welsh: cyfraith trosedd f