What are the chief distinctions between the civil law and the criminal law?

Please answer the following four questions for your research response. 1) What are the chief distinctions between the civil law and the criminal law? 2) Why do criminal and civil law sometimes overlap? (Provide an example). 3) What are some of the societal interests served by the criminal law mentioned in your book? (List four with examples). 4) Should certain categories like public health and the natural environment be subject only to civil, rather than criminal sanctions, and why or why not? This assignment should be 2-4 pages, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with one-inch margins all around. Please submit this assignment as a word document and cite all of your references.