The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States, which relies on the articulation of legal principles in a historical succession of judicial decisions. 

• Misdemeanor 
• Case Law 
• Common Law 
• Sir William Blackstone

Crimes conducted over the internet or other computer network.

• Embezzlement 
• Tort 
• Commentaries on the Laws of England 
• Cybercrime

The body of law that defines crimes and the punishments that go with them. 

• Precedent 
• Criminal Law 
• Damages 
• Tort

Crimes that are highly visible to the public; also called street crime.

• Ordinary Crime 
• Stare Decisis 
• Visible Crime 
• Street Crime

A series of books containing the written judicial opinions of a particular court. 

• Reporter 
• Cybercrime 
• Embezzlement 
• Substantive Criminal Law

An English legal scholar who wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England, a set of law books that had a major influence of the development of the criminal law in the United States.

• Sir William Blackstone 
• Phishing 
• Case Law 
• Commentaries on the Laws of England

A serious crime, usually punishable by at least one year in prison. 

• Felony
• Case Law 
• Damages 
• Street Crime

An offense punishable by one year of imprisonment (usually in a county jail) or less. 

• Misdemeanor
• Damages
• Sir William Blackstone 
• Cybercrime

Theft of an employer’s property by an employee. 

• Case Law 
• Hate Crime
• Embezzlement 
• Substantive Criminal Law

A crime motivated by racial or other prejudice; often violent. 

• Case Law 
• Reporter 
• Hate Crime 
• Common Law

A group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. 

• Criminal Law 
• Precedent 
• Commentaries on the Laws of England 
• Organized Crime

Obtaining financial or other sensitive information from online account holders by posing as a legitimate business or organization.

• Case Law 
• Stare Decisis 
• Criminal Law 
• Phishing

A treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone that heavily influenced the law of the early United States. 

• Sir William Blackstone 
• Precedent 
• Commentaries on the Laws of England 
• Case Law

The body of law that controls how the various agents and elements of the criminal justice system treat people. 

• Commentaries on the Laws of England
• Hate Crime 
• Street Crime
• Procedural Criminal Law

Another name for street crime; offenses committed in public places.

• Cybercrime 
• Ordinary Crime
• Visible Crime 
• Embezzlement

The part of the criminal law that specifies prohibited acts and the punishments associated with those acts. 

• Misdemeanor 
• Substantive Criminal Law 
• Tort 
• Felony

A civil, not criminal, wrong.

• Tort 
• Common Law 
• Phishing 
• Procedural Criminal Law

Legal Latin for “to stand by things decided;” the doctrine that rules of law established in past court cases should be followed in present ones. 

• Commentaries on the Laws of England 
• Stare Decisis 
• Precedent 
• Organized Crime

A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court. 

• Tort 
• Precedent 
• Embezzlement 
• Visible Crime

The law as established in previous court decisions; A synonym for legal precedent.

• Procedural Criminal Law
• Case Law 
• Damages 
• Organized Crime