Check Point / CJS 250

Law and Legal Issues

Criminal law
, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is prohibited by the state because it is held to threaten, harm or otherwise endanger the safety and welfare of the public, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on those who breach these laws. Criminal law is to be distinguished from civil law.

Civil Law (common law)

as opposed to criminal law, is the branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim. For instance, if a car crash victim claims damages against the driver for loss or injury sustained in an accident, this will be a civil law case.

Administrative law
is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. Administrative law is considered a branch of public law

Crime classifications explanation

Homicide: Murder. Other Homicide: Attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, manslaughter, and driving causing death. Assault (non-sexual offences): Assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, Driving causing grievous bodily harm, wounding, assault occasioning bodily harm, serious assault, common assault, assault of police, minor assault. Sexual offences includes the sub categories of: 1) Rape and Attempted Rape, and 2) Other Sexual Offences which includes indecent assaults on adults, indecent treatment of children, assault with intent to commit rape, unlawful carnal knowledge, incest, bestiality, indecent practices/gross indecency, and willful obscene exposure. Robbery offences includes the sub categories of 1) Armed, and 2) Unarmed.
Extortion offences includes demand property, benefit or service with threats with intent to extort and other extortion (not elsewhere classified). Kidnapping and abduction offences also includes attempted abduction and deprivation of liberty, kidnapping for ransom or gain and other offences against liberty.

Other offences against the person includes offences such as ill treatment of children, endanger lives on aircraft (hijacking), endanger lives on railways (obstructions), armed so as to cause fear or alarm and stalking.

TORT LAW Two Types impact Security Professionals

Tort law deals with private or civil wrongs other than contracts, and affects or controls relationships between people in any given situation.

Negligence and intentional torts are two areas of tort law that are of great concern to the private security profession
Negligence torts is the failure to exercise a reasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation that causes harm to someone or something. To prove a case of negligence, the claimant must demonstrate the following: (1) a duty, (2) a breach of duty, and (3) proximate causation. Intentional torts are acts committed by a person who made a decision to act. Intentional torts include (1) assault, (2) battery, (3) false arrest, (4) false imprisonment, (5) defamation of character, (6) malicious prosecution, (7) invasion of privacy, and (8) outrageous conduct

Reference
Law & Legal Issues
http://www.answers.com/main/legal.jsp#ixzz1Xi194vOe

Crime classifications

http://www.police.qld.gov.au/services/reports