Purpose of Criminal Law and Conviction of Fraud under Fraud Act 2006

Criminal law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the purpose of criminal law and consider what society hope to achieve from
punishment?................................................................................................................................3
Explain the ways in which a person may be convicted of Fraud under Fraud Act 2006............4
Difficulties faced while prosecuting .........................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Criminal law are those rules and regulations that has been formed in order to control
activities of criminal nature. These laws provide concrete legislations and code of criminal
conduct which helps in dealing upon crimes happening within society. Criminal law has wider
scope as it deals upon various elements existing within society. Also nature is dynamic due to its
tendency of impacting society at large. In this file things to be covered is based upon criminal
law and Fraud Act 2006.
TASK
Discuss the purpose of criminal law and consider what society hope to achieve from
punishment?
Criminal law means the body of criminal offences that regulates understanding in relation
proceedings and trial to be done within criminal proceedings. Under these laws penalties and
punishment is been prescribed upon various criminal offences committed by an offender. These
laws also operates upon devices which helps in organizing society through which protection is
done of society in relation to crime taking place within it. These laws deals upon conduct that is
related to threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and
moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self (Majidi and Tajabadi, 2019). Such laws has been
formed with the help of statutes that has been enacted by legislature or law formed in relation to
it. Criminal laws involves punishment and rehabilitation for an individual violating these laws.
Purpose of criminal law is to maintain peace and order within society through imposing
punishment over crimes that is been committed by an individual. Society seeks to achieve five
major objectives through punishment which are retribution, deterrence, incapacitation,
rehabilitation and restoration. Further these objectives has been explained as follows:
Retribution: As per this criminals is required to be punished in certain manner. This is
one of the most oldest and widely accepted objective of punishment. Criminal takes advantages
or inflicting unfair detriment over consequences that put criminal law at some unpleasant
disadvantage for balancing scale. In this an individual is required to follow the laws that has been
formed and if due to any reason violation takes place then punishment has to be imposed upon
them in order to create balance within the society (Manacorda, 2018).