Pros And Cons Of Statutory Law

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When you think about it what exactly does the term law mean, it can be so many laws of some many things the law of the law, the law of the government the law of anything but what does it mean. According to our textbook Into to Criminal Justice the term law is defined as a rule of conduct, generally found enacted in the form of a statute that proscribes or mandates certain forms of behavior. It was rules that were established to sort of deter a certain behavior. There are many types of laws specially focusing on statutory law, case law, and the penal code. Statutory law the written or codified law; “the law on the books,” as enacted by a government body or agency having the power to make laws; case law the body of judicial precedent, historically…show more content…
That is the reason that laws or an established a general rule of conduct for the public in society. It is not as option but a mandate of how we should interact with each other and what is acceptable. Although the statutory law is similar to the law it is an organized decree it is the law of the government which is the written law of the land that is legislated by the government or any administration that has power of that land which in other words is the “law of the land”. This is the common form of law because it is written and enforced by administration. The statutory laws exist in both the illegal and domestic sides of the criminal justice system and at that point is considered as codes which at some point include the penal code and case law. Comparatively the penal code is also a written form of the law for criminal law. Case law is not yet established but is a created as a direct result of a justdicaial decisions that was made. For example a penal code was created in California which is a penal code against hazing, the Penal Code 245.6PC was passed in 2006 to make hazing a crime in California the penal code was passed as a direct result of the death of a college freshman at California State. As a result of the death and the penal code being made a case law was passed just solely on that case to make sanctions for

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