What is the correct definition of a criminal law? a law that seeks to protect public safety by grading crimes as felonies or misdemeanors and attaching appropriate punishments to each grade a law that involves disputes between two parties, but not society at large, and that largely deal with broken contracts and other contested legal agreements a law that defines how criminals must be treated after being convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor and serving their time in prison or paying the requisite fines a laws that establishes rules for how criminals must behave in prison and the civil rights criminals forfeit after being convicted of a crime