The phrase "a criminal code" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a set of laws or regulations that define criminal offenses and their penalties within a legal system.
Example: "The new legislation aims to reform the existing criminal code to address modern issues such as cybercrime."
Alternatives: "penal code" or "criminal statute".
In Germany a criminal code was adopted in 1998 following the reunification of East and West Germany.
"It is society that will rule on whether that joke is acceptable and not a criminal code," Cooper said.
The country's Sharia-based justice system lacks a criminal code, meaning definitions of crimes and their punishment are often left widely open to the interpretation of judges.
The great attraction of Puzo's and Coppola's "Godfather" was the romantic notion that a criminal code of honor, based on family, could persist in the modern era.
Second, in most countries prosecutors are circumscribed fairly tightly by a criminal code that has been developed overtime by a depoliticized and autonomous judiciary.
First, it has proved impossible to draft and keep up-to-date a criminal code that unambiguously encompasses all conduct intended to be deemed criminal; there are technical offenses or offenses that public opinion no longer regards as culpable.
Lawyers and jurists are now debating how to balance the constitutional prohibition on banning political parties against a criminal-code provision that bars from elected office any individuals convicted of flagrant crimes.
Singapore maintained a severe criminal code and a very high imprisonment rate despite having a very low crime rate.
The Saudi delegates said their country had introduced a new criminal code and a new code of criminal procedures, and transferred the authority for its penal correction system to its Ministry of Justice.
Last week Mr Yanukovich submitted a draft of a new criminal code to the Rada (parliament) that would soften punishment for economic crimes, though without reference to the articles used to convict Ms Tymoshenko, which date back to Soviet times.
Mr Yanukovych has just submitted a draft of a new criminal code to the Rada (parliament) that would soften punishment for economic crimes without making reference to the articles used to convict Ms Tymoshenko.
