| A | B |
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| a law based on precedent | Common Law |
| bodies of rules with the potential for severe impositions as punishment for failure to comply | Criminal Law |
| The body of laws of a state or nation dealing with the rights of private citizens. | Civil Law |
| deals with the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution | Constitutional Law |
| laws/rules that are made by the different government departments and agencies | Administrative law |
| laws made by legislatures | Statutory law |
| body of law that governs the legal relations between or among states or nations | International Law |
| the lose of licenses or practice for many years | Long-term suspension |
| statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which require the state courts to hand down a mandatory and extended period of incarceration to persons who have been convicted of a serious crimes | Three-strikes laws |
| act of seizing property without compensation and submitting it to the public treasury | Confiscation of property |
| a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Mental Institutions |
| Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment for many years | Long-term incarceration |
| sentence of punishment by execution. | Death Penalty |
| to provide therapy, education or other services to help prepare a person to re-enter society | Rehabilitation |
| anything given as an equivalent, or to make amends for a loss, damage, unemployment | Monetary Compensation |
| repetition of criminal or antisocial behavior patterns | Recidivism |
| the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment especially in the hereafter | Retribution |
| the inhibition of criminal behavior by fear especially of punishment | Deterrence |
| a keeping in custody; confinement an enforced delay | Detention |
| a period of time where a criminal offender is supervised by a probation officer | Probation |
| the release of a convicted criminal defendant after serving a portion of their sentence, upon a finding that the person is sufficiently rehabilitated and not a threat to society. | Parole |
| a secure residential facility for young people, often termed juvenile delinquents | Juvenile Detention |
| a punitive sentence that requires a convicted person to perform unpaid work for the community in lieu of imprisonment | Community Service |
| confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail | House Arrest |
| A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons awaiting trial under local jurisdiction. | Jail |
| a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction | Prison |
| A correctional facility that uses the training techniques applied to military recruits to teach usually youthful offenders socially acceptable patterns of behavior. | Boot Camp |
| money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss. | Compensation |
| to provide therapy, education or other services to help prepare a person to re-enter society | Rehabilitation |
| to imprison; confine. | Incarceration |
