There are differences between civil law and criminal law penalties as they relate to coding violations. As it is known, penalties for violations of civil law are usually softer than penalties for committing an actual crime. Overall, the criminal law system is more complex than the civil law system because identifying criminal actions can be challenging. According to Ristroph (2018), criminal law theorists nowadays try to define which actions or behavior should be considered criminal and why the corresponding punishments are justified. I think that penalties for civil law violations are seen more often in the legal system because people probably commit civil coding violations more often due to the softer punishment measures. Such a state of affairs is associated with the psychological factor: actions that are considered criminal in the modern legal system lead to heavier penalties, and people mostly avoid committing them.
However, coding violations of criminal law appear in the news more often because the news system is a part of mass media, which usually attempts to gather as much attention as possible. Therefore, criminal actions are more significant than violations of the civil law code, meaning that a crime is a subject more worthy of notice in the news. People do not care if a man crosses a road in an inappropriate area, but if someone kills another person – that can create public interest in the matter. Therefore, occurrences of criminal actions are more likely to appear in various media sources. Thus, I have given different answers to the two questions because there are many more cases of civil law violations in the legal system, but the media is more interested in publishing information on crimes and criminals.
Reference
Ristroph, A. (2018). The Thin Blue Line from Crime to Punishment. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 108(2), 305-334.