Gilbert Law Summaries
Subtitle: Criminal Law
Publisher: Harcourt Legal & Professional Pubns
Published: June 2000
ISBN-13: 9780159005071
First sentence: A crime is an act or omission prohibited by law for the protection of the public, the violation of which is prosecuted by the state in its own name, and punishable by fine, incarceration, other restrictions upon liberty, or some combination of these.