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criminal law

body of law that relates to crime
Intangible area_of_law Q146491
criminal law
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Summary

criminal law is an area of law[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of area of law entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,689 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of law[3]
  • Subclass of: law[4]
  • Part of: law[5]
  • Commons category: Criminal law[6]
  • Opposite of: civil law[7]
  • Has part(s): element[8], inchoate offense[9], offence against the person[10], defense[11], criminal code[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Criminal law[13]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[16]
  • Topic has template: Template:Criminal law[17]
  • Has characteristic: motive[18]
  • Different from: tort law[19]
  • Studied by: sociology of criminal law[20], jurisprudence[21]
  • Practiced by: criminal defense lawyer[22], prosecutor[23]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]

Why It Matters

criminal law has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

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  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Q24498976. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 003130
    Sitelink count → 96
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → criminal-law
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06551169-n
    Interlingual index id → i70831
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  3. 13w ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Sytin Military Encyclopedia
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  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2e1pA5
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  5. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000145-trestni-pravo
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  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → criminal defense lawyer, prosecutor
    Opposite of → civil law
    Pronunciation audio → De-Strafrecht.ogg
    Aliases → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 10425, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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