The essential object of criminal law is to protect society against criminals and law-breakers. For this purpose, the law holds out threats of punishments to prospective lawbreakers as well as attempts to make the actual offenders suffer the prescribed punishments for their crimes.

 

Criminal law, in its wider sense, consists of both the substantive criminal law and the procedural (or adjective) criminal law.

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Substantive criminal law defines offences and prescribes punishments for the same, Such Indian Penal Code, while the procedural law administers the substantive law Such as the Criminal Procedure code.

 

Therefore, the two main statues which deals with administration of criminal Justice in our country are criminal procedure code i.e. CRPC and Indian penal code i.e. IPC.