Criminal law
Elements
Actus reus Mens rea Causation Concurrence
Scope of criminalliability
Accessory Accomplice Complicity Corporate Mandated reporter Principal Use of force continuum Vicarious
Severity of offense
Felony (orIndictable offense) Misdemeanor (orSummary offense) Infraction (also called violation)
Inchoate offenses
Attempt Conspiracy Incitement Solicitation
Offense against the person
Assassination Assault Battery Child abuse Concealment of a corpse Criminal negligence Domestic violence False imprisonment Frameup Harassment Street Home invasion Hate crime Homicide Human trafficking Intimidation Kidnapping Manslaughter (corporate) Mayhem Murder felony Homicide Negligent homicide Reckless homicide Robbery Stalking Stabbing Torture
Sexual offenses
Adultery Bigamy Child sexual abuse Cybersex trafficking Fornication Homosexuality Groping Incest Indecent exposure Masturbation Obscenity Prostitution Rape Pederasty Sex trafficking Sexual assault Sexual harassment Sexual slavery Voyeurism
Crimes against property
Arson Arms trafficking Blackmail Bribery Burglary Cybercrime Embezzlement Extortion False pretenses Forgery Fraud Gambling Intellectual property violation Larceny Looting Payola Pickpocketing Possessing stolen property Robbery Smuggling Parallel import Tax evasion Theft Trespass to land Vandalism Mischief
Crimes against justice
Against public justice Justice delayed Compounding Contempt Malfeasance in office Miscarriage of justice Judicial misconduct Misprision Perjury Perverting the course of justice
Crimes against the public
Apostasy Corruption Censorship violation Dueling Genocide Ethnic cleansing Hostage-taking People smuggling Insider trading Smuggling Illegal consumption (such asdrugs,alcohol, andsmoking) Miscegenation Piracy Political corruption Regicide Unreported employment Usurpation War crimes
Crimes against animals
Cruelty to animals Poaching Wildlife smuggling Bestiality
Crimes against the state
Lèse-majesté Treason Espionage Secession Sedition Subversion
Defenses to liability
Actual innocence Automatism Consent Defense of property Diminished responsibility Duress Entrapment Ignorantia juris non excusat Infancy Insanity Intoxication Justification Might makes right Mistake (of law) Necessity Possession is nine-tenths of the law Provocation Sanctuary Self-defense Statute of limitations
Other common-law areas
Contracts Defenses Evidence Property Torts Wills,trusts andestates
Portals
Law
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Offences against public justice^[1] areoffences against public justice.Offences against the administration of public justice^[2] oroffences against the administration of justice^[3] are offences against theadministration of justice.

See formerly sections 289 to 298 of theCriminal Law Consolidation Act 1876.

Part 4 of theCriminal Code makes provision for offences against the administration of law and justice.

Offences under the Code of 1860 included:

• Giving false evidence, contrary to section 191 of theIndian Penal Code^[4]
• Fabricating false evidence, contrary to section 192 of the Indian Penal Code^[5]

Offences include:

• Perjury, contrary to section 2 of theCriminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act 2021. This was previously a common law offence.^[6]
• Contempt of court^[7]
• Attempting to pervert the course of justice^[8]

In Part 3 of theCriminal Procedure Act 2010, the expression "offence against the administration of justice" is defined by section 7 of that Act, as amended by section 27 of theCriminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018.

Part 6 of theCrimes Act 1961 makes provision for crimes affecting the administration of law and justice.

Offences include

• Perjury^[9]
• Contempt of court^[10]
• Defeating or obstructing the course of justice^[11]

The fifth report of theCriminal Law Commissioners, dated 22 April 1840, classified offences against the administration of justice asoffences against the executive power.^[12]The Justice of the Peace said that it seemed to them that offences against the administration of justice were entirely distinct from offences against the executive power.^[13]

Offences include:

• Perjury^[14]
• Contempt of court^[15]
• Prison breaking
• Escape from lawful custody^[16]
• Escape from custody, contrary to section 91 of thePolice and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012

Deforcement^[17] was, by 2001, charged as aggravated assault.^[18]

Offences include:

• Perjury^[19]
• Contempt of court^[20]
• Offences ofobstruction of justice^[21] under chapter 73 of 18 USC.

• Blackstone. "Of Offences against Public Justice". Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 4. Chapter 10.Page 127.
• Hawkins. "Of Offences against the Public Justice of the Kingdom". A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. Eighth Edition, by John Curwood. 1824. Book 1. Chapter 27.Page 412.
• Hale. Historia Placitorum Coronae. Chapter L.Page 575.

• Richardson (ed). "Offences against Public Justice". Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice 2011. Chapter 28. Pages2511 to 2573.
• Hooper and Ormerod (eds). "Offences Against the Administration of Justice". Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012. Section B14. Pages817 to 863.
• Richard Card. "Offences against the administration of justice". Card, Cross, and Jones Criminal Law. 17th Edition. 2006. Chapter 12. Pages507 to 530.
• Harris and Tomlinson. Principles of the Criminal Law. Second Edition. 1881. Chapter 4.Page 76.

• A M Anderson. "Offences against the Administration of Justice". The Criminal Law of Scotland. 1892. Pages53 to 63.
• R A A McCall Smith and David Sheldon. "Offences against the administration of justice". Scots Criminal Law. Second Edition. Butterworths. 1997. Chapter 20. Pages329 to 336.
• Christie (ed). Gerald H Gordon. "Offences against the Course of Justice". The Criminal Law of Scotland. Third Edition. W Green. 2001. Volume 2. Part VIII. Chapters 47 to 50. Pages719 to 766.
• Claire McDiarmid. "Crimes Against the Course of Justice". Criminal Law. Dundee University Press. 2007. Chapter 12. Pages115 to 121.
• Ferguson. Scots Criminal Law. 2nd Edition. Chapter 14.

• Sean E Quinn. "Offences against the Administration of Justice". Criminal Law in Ireland. Fourth Edition. Irish Law Publishing. 2009. Chapter 55. Pages1655 to 1714. Second Edition. 1993. Chapter 38. Pages 335 to 345.[1]
• T J McIntyre and Sinead McMullan. "Offences against the Administration of Justice". Criminal Law. Second Edition. Thomson Round Hall. 2005. Chapter 9. Pages169 to 181.

• Peter Gillies. "Offences Against Justice". Criminal Law.Third Edition. Law Book Company. 1993. Chapter 32. Page 802 et seq.

• J D Willis. "Part VI: Crimes Affecting the Administration of Law and Justice". Garrow and Willis's Criminal Law.Fifth Edition. Butterworths. 1968. Pages 82 to 97.

• Burchell and Milton. "Crimes against the Administration of Justice". Principles of Criminal Law.Second Edition. Juta & Co. 1997. Section I. Chapters 86 to 90. Pages 687 to 713.
• Alfred V Lansdown. "Offences relating to the Administration of Justice". Outlines of South African Criminal Law and Procedure.Second Edition. Juta. 1960. Chapter X. Page 167 et seq.

• "Part IV: Offences Against the Administration of Law and Justice". Crankshaw's Criminal Code of Canada.Fifth Edition. Carswell. 1924. Pages 158 to 202.
• Crankshaw. The Criminal Code of Canada.Third Edition. 1910. Page 140 et seq.

• K D Gaur. "Of False Evidence and Offences against Public Justice". Textbook on the Indian Penal Code. Fourth Edition. Universal Law Publishing. 2009. Chapter 11. Pages327 to 365.

• Peters. "For Offences against Public Justice". Riley's Edition of Chitty's Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law. 1819. Volume 2. Chapter 8.Page 69.
• Robert Destry. "Offences against Public Justice". A Compendium of American Criminal Law. 1882. Chapter 12. Pages177 to 220.
• Ohlin. "Offenses Against the Administration of Justice". Criminal Law: Doctrine, Application, and Practice. Third Edition. Aspen. Chapter 17. Pages461 et seq.

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