Criminal law is a system of legal norms regulating social relations arising from the perpetration of crimes. Bulgarian criminal law has the task of protecting the person and rights of citizens and the overall legal order established in the country from criminal infringements, and to accomplish this task the Criminal Code defines which socially dangerous acts constitute crimes and what penalties are imposed for them. It also establishes the cases when measures of social influence and education may be imposed instead of punishment. Criminal law, as part of the law in force in a country, regulates specific social relations linked to a whole system of prohibitions.