Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by the court often in lieu of incarceration.
Robert L. Patten Probation Detention Center in Lakeland, Georgia
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and welfare of people inclusive of one's self. Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature. Criminal law includes the punishment and rehabilitation of people who violate such laws.
The Old Bailey in London (in 1808) was the venue for more than 100,000 criminal trials between 1674 and 1834, including all death penalty cases.
An English court room in 1886, with Lord Chief Justice Coleridge presiding
The exterior of the International Criminal Court's headquarters building in the Hague