The phrase "a criminal process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the legal procedures involved in prosecuting a crime or the steps taken in the criminal justice system.
Example: "The defendant was informed of his rights before the criminal process began."
Alternatives: "a legal proceeding" or "a judicial process".
A criminal process is entirely appropriate.
Even a bad person is entitled to a criminal process untainted by torture.
He also wrote that church officials had not reported accusations of abuse to the police because of "a desire to encourage victims who might not desire to enter a criminal process to come forward to us".
He told the British diplomats: "What we'll do is take these activists – young, enthusiastic, self-appointed, social-media-savvy, with considerable personal courage – and we'll sensitise them to the sort of evidence that is required to inform an international criminal case, so they're not running around collecting stuff that's of no use for a criminal process".
The investigation will not be a criminal process and cannot order Ms Saunders to review her decision, but any factual evidence concerning the allegations will be recorded and published.
National fraternity groups in 2015 tried to push for legislation that would prevent a college from investigating a sexual assault case until the end of a criminal process, including the trial.
The last of three construction supervisors who were charged in the death of two firefighters battling a blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building was acquitted on Wednesday, bringing a two-and-a-half-year criminal process to a close without any significant criminal penalties to show for it.
And there must be respect that this is a proper criminal process, not simply an opportunity for political stunts.
It is not as though China lacks laws prohibiting torture, or as though it could not put its political critics through an ordinary – if not a fair – criminal process, which among other things would require them having access to lawyers.
The criminal law, however, in defining such conflicts or troubles as criminal wrongs to be dealt with by a public criminal process, steals them: it transfers them to the professionalized context of a criminal justice system in which neither victims nor offenders are allowed really to participate; it thus denies those to whom the conflict belongs the chance to work it out for themselves.
We hope the unnecessary killing of James results in a transparent criminal process holding officers accountable to the families and communities they serve across this nation," Other activists also welcomed the news.
