USA Law

Tag: Criminal Justice System

  • Personnel

    Personnel in the United States Central Personnel Data File and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission This is a computer data file created and maintained by the OPM. The file is based on personnel action information submitted directly to the OPM by Executive Branch federal agency […]

  • Homicide

    Homicide in United States Homicide Definition in Legal History Homicide is any killing of a human being. To constitute homicide, the killing must be of a living human being; the death must have been caused by the act or omission of the accused; death must happen within a year and […]

  • Probation

    Probation in the United States A criminal sentence that allows a person to return to the community under supervised release. Probation is an alternative to imprisonment and is applied to almost two-thirds of sentenced offenders in the United States. Control is maintained over the offender by […]

  • Arson

    Arson in United States Arson Definition (Lat. ardere, to burn). At common law. The malicious burning of the house of another. Coke, 3d Inst. 66; Bish. Crim. Law, § 415; 4 Bl. Comm. 220; 2 Pick. (Mass.) 320; 10 Cush. (Mass.) 479; 7 Grat. (Va.) 619; 9 Ala. 175; 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 168; 1 Leach,…

  • Training

    Training in the United States Introduction to Education And Training (State statute topic) The purpose of Training is to provide a broad appreciation of the Training legal topic. Select from the list of U.S. legal topics for information (other than Training). Finding the law: Training in the […]

  • Courts

    Courts in the United States Courts in the United States Introduction to Courts Courts in the United States, government institutions that resolve legal disputes by trial and that hear appeals from such cases. The United States has a federal system of government in which power is divided […]

  • Policy

    Policy in United States Policy Definition In insurance. The Instrument whereby insurance is made by an underwriter in favor of an assured, expressed, implied, or intended, against some risk, peril, or contingency in reference to some subject. It is usually either marine, or against […]

  • Policy

    Policy in United States Policy Definition In insurance. The Instrument whereby insurance is made by an underwriter in favor of an assured, expressed, implied, or intended, against some risk, peril, or contingency in reference to some subject. It is usually either marine, or against […]

  • Law Enforcement

    Law Enforcement in the United States Law Enforcement and Federal_State Relations United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FEDERAL_STATE RELATIONSThis country has long been committed to the notion that […]

  • Law Enforcement

    Law Enforcement in the United States Law Enforcement and Federal_State Relations United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FEDERAL_STATE RELATIONSThis country has long been committed to the notion that […]

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Women

    Women in the United States Introduction to Women and the Law With the growth of the feminist movement, the published information in the subject area of women and the law has grown. Issues of labor, domestic relations, education, economics and health have always been of interest to the public […]

  • Investigations

    Investigations in the United States Investigations and the State Laws Select from the list of U.S. States below for state-specific information on Investigations: Investigations in the Subject Index of the Alabama Portal Investigations in the Subject Index of the Alaska Portal Investigations in […]

  • Child Pornography

    Child Pornography in the United States United States Constitution According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 623 CHILD PORNOGRAPHYEvery year, thousands of children are compelled to engage in pornographic acts for the production of films and […]