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Criminal negligence
Criminal negligence, also called gross negligence in some contexts, is the lowest mens rea level in criminal law: failing to perceive a substantial, unjustifiable risk a reasonable person would notice, a gross deviation from reasonable care, distinct from recklessness by lack of awareness.
Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure is the body of law regulating the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of criminal cases. Most systems rely on due process, using either adversarial or inquisitorial traditions.
Criminal procedure in South Africa
Criminal procedure in South Africa, governed by the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, covering arrest, bail, trial, appeal, and the ongoing SALRC Project 151 constitutional review.
Criminal psychology
Criminal psychology, also called psychology of crime or psychology-law, studies the psychological factors behind criminal behavior. Branch of legal psychology overlapping forensic and correctional psychology; key risk factors and offender rehabilitation research.
Criminal sentencing in the United States
Criminal sentencing in the United States sets punishment after conviction, historically indeterminate with parole boards, reshaped by the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act and federal guidelines made advisory by the 2005 Booker decision.
Criminal stereotype of African Americans
Criminal stereotype of African Americans: the long-standing association of Black people, especially Black men, with criminality, rooted in slave patrols and convict leasing, sustained by Jim Crow discourse, punitive crime policy, media portrayals, and perceptual bias.
Criminal tattoo
Criminal tattoo: tattoos marking gang or prison subculture affiliation, rank, and criminal history, from Soviet prison ink documented by Baldaev to contested gang-identification uses today.
Criminal trial of Donald Trump in New York
The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan hush money criminal trial: 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, guilty verdict May 30, 2024, unconditional discharge January 10, 2025, first criminal conviction of a former US president.
Criminology
Criminology, also called the sociology of crime, is the interdisciplinary scientific study of crime, criminal behavior, and society's reaction to them, asking why crime happens rather than how the justice system operates.
Crimson Education
Crimson Education, also called Crimson, is a New Zealand-founded (2013) university admissions consultancy and edtech company led by Jamie Beaton, known for team-based admissions packages, Crimson Global Academy, Crimson Rise, and EY-verified offer counts.
Crimson Point
Crimson Point, L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership classified as a private equity fund, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, which disclosed a $1.235 billion offering in 2026.
CRINK
CRINK: acronym for China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, a loose anti-Western alignment, not a formal alliance. Coined around 2023 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine; cooperation is mostly bilateral, anchored by China-Russia ties.
Criollo people
Criollo people: American-born Spaniards in colonial Spanish America, also called creoles, distinct from peninsulars; legally equal but excluded from high office, they led the independence movements.
Cripps Mission
Cripps Mission: March–April 1942 British initiative under Sir Stafford Cripps offering India post-war Dominion status, a Constituent Assembly, and provincial opt-out in exchange for wartime cooperation; rejected by Congress and the Muslim League, preceding Quit India.
Crips
The Crips are a loose association of mostly African American street gangs founded in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, best known for their rivalry with the Bloods.
Crips–Bloods gang war
The Crips–Bloods gang war is the conflict between Los Angeles's Crips and Bloods street gang alliances, which formed in 1969 over territory. It has claimed nearly 20,000 lives, produced the 1992 Watts truce, and now coexists with GRYD intervention programs.
Cris Collinsworth
Cris Collinsworth (Anthony Cris Collinsworth, born 1959) is an American sportscaster and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver (1981-88, three Pro Bowls). He has been NBC Sunday Night Football's game analyst since 2009, with 17 Sports Emmys, six Super Bowls as an analyst, and ownership of Pro Football Focus.
Cris Dush
Cris Dush is an American Republican politician and member of the Pennsylvania Senate representing the 25th district. He chairs the Pennsylvania Anti-Human Trafficking Caucus, and in 2026 his human trafficking legislation was signed into law.
Crisis
A crisis is an unstable, dangerous event or period affecting an individual, a group, or society, often arriving abruptly with little warning; most crises are created by humans.
Crisis in Venezuela
The crisis in Venezuela is the economic collapse that began around 2012, cutting GDP by about 75 percent and driving 7.9 million people from the country.
Crisis management
Crisis management is the strategic capability by which an organization plans for, responds to, and learns from abnormal, unstable situations that threaten its strategic objectives, reputation, or viability.
Crisis of the Roman Republic
Crisis of the Roman Republic: the period 133–27 BC of political violence, Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, civil wars, and constitutional breakdown ending in Augustus's autocracy.
Crisis of the Third Century
The Crisis of the Third Century, or Imperial Crisis, was a period of Roman instability from 235 to 284, with rapid turnover of emperors, invasions, plague, and breakaway empires.
Crisis of Yijia
The Crisis of Yijia (义嘉之难) was a large-scale 466 rebellion in the Liu Song dynasty, when Deng Wan enthroned the child Liu Zixun at Xunyang against Emperor Ming.
Crisis theory
Crisis theory is a body of economic analysis explaining deep, recurrent downturns, especially the Marxian view that crises arise from capital accumulation itself, with schools including underconsumption and the falling rate of profit.
Crispin Blunt
Crispin Blunt (born 1960), British Conservative MP for Reigate 1997-2024, prisons and probation minister 2010-2012, Foreign Affairs Committee chair 2015-2017; sat as an independent after October 2023 arrest and was later convicted of drug possession.
Crispin Thurlow
Crispin Thurlow is a South African–trained sociolinguist, Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Bern, known for studying how status and privilege are made in language.
CRISPR Therapeutics
CRISPR Therapeutics is a Swiss gene-editing biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Zug, co-founded around Emmanuelle Charpentier's CRISPR-Cas9 work, that developed Casgevy, the first approved CRISPR therapy.
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723–March 5, 1770), also recorded as Michael Johnson, was a mixed African-Indigenous sailor, formerly enslaved in Framingham, Massachusetts, killed at the Boston Massacre and remembered as the Revolution's first martyr.
Cristal C. Brisco
Cristal C. Brisco, born 1981 in Merrillville, Indiana, is a US district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2024, the first Black woman to serve on that court.