Criminal Records
The automated national criminal record is managed by an independent processing service located in Nantes and placed under the authority of ...
Prosecutors
The public prosecutor decides on the advisability of setting in motion the public action. This means that it belongs to the prosecutor ...
Initiation of proceedings by the victim
If the prosecution closes a victim's complaint, she can act by becoming a civil party to set in motion ...
The appearance on prior admission of guilt (CRPC)
This measure is also called criminal composition or "guilty plea" because it will only be possible if the ...
Criminal mediation
Criminal mediation is an alternative to prosecution. This measure seems appropriate in the face of an identified victim who has come to deposit ...
Orientation to a health, social or professional structure
This measure can be offered as part of the alternatives to prosecution. The public prosecutor can decide to ...
Family criminal immunities
"Washing your dirty laundry with the family" takes on its full meaning in the criminal justice system. Apart from the facts of domestic violence, the law ...
The prescription of public action
The prescription of public action makes it possible to extinguish and therefore put an end to all legal proceedings, even those which ...
Self defense
The law does not recognize the law of retaliation. A victim who defends himself will be liable to criminal prosecution if ...
The extinction of public action
The cases specifying the modalities of the termination of the public action are envisaged in article 6 of the code of penal procedure….
The classification without continuation
It is not enough to file a complaint to initiate legal proceedings. This choice is up to the prosecutor. But, sometimes the ...
Cyberbullying: what the law says
The suicide of several young girls (including several, live on social networks) following the harassment they suffered ...
The estrangement of the violent partner
The measure of removal of the violent spouse is an alternative to prosecution. Created by the law of December 12, 2005, this…
The sentences proposed in CRPC
Within the framework of a CRPC, the public prosecutor may propose one of the following penalties provided for by law….
The initiation of prosecutions by the prosecution: what decisions can it take?
According to the principle of the expediency of prosecutions, it is up to the prosecution to take a decision following: a filing ...
Alternatives to prosecution
The peculiarity of an alternative to prosecution is that it is not a criminal prosecution. The offender does not walk past ...
Identity checks
Identity control consists of questioning a person so that they can justify their identity "by all means". They are carried out ...
Narcotics: use, possession, transport… what does the law say?
France is the largest country of cannabis consumers. According to a study by the French Office for Drugs and ...
Penalties for driving without a license and / or without insurance
What are the risks incurred by driving without a license and forgetting your insurance? Around 770 drivers ...