In the criminal court, judges can punish offenders with fines, imprisonment, community supervision, and a variety of other measures. Your attorney has asked you to research the available consequences in civil actions.
- Please prepare a main post of 2-4 paragraphs detailing at least two types of remedies available in civil court.
- How do civil penalties differ from criminal punishments?
- When a case is tried at both the criminal and civil levels, should the punishment between the two correlate in any way? Why or why not?
- Cite sources to support your work, and substantively respond to the posts of your classmates.