Criminal Injury

Criminal injury in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of criminal injury.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• criminal injury in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• criminal injury in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Criminal Injury

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Criminal Injury : For purposes of the *Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, any crime involving the use of violence against another person. Such crimes include rape, assault, arson, poisoning, and criminal damage to property involving a risk of danger to life; traffic offences other than a deliberate attempt to run the victim down are not included. The injury sustained includes pregnancy, disease, and mental distress attributable either to fear of immediate physical injury (even to another person) or to being present when another person sustained physical injury.