CRIMO: An Ontology for Reasoning on Criminal Judgments

Legal experts develop their draft by analyzing legal documents in order to glean information about the criteria listed in relevant legal parts. The many criminal cases reported in Criminal Judgments of the lawful domain explain the offense, the accused parties, the investigation, and the ultimate verdict. Many parts of the written code can be misinterpreted or lead to erroneous findings when applied to a criminal case. To better assist legal reasoning, this study seeks to establish an integrated ontology for modeling criminal law standards. The proposed criminal domain ontology maps entities and their relationships to textual rules linked to Criminal Acts in the Indian Penal Code of 1860 using OWL-DL in a middle-out manner and formalizes legal rules accordingly. The purpose is to build a legal rule-based decision support system for the Indian criminal domain utilizing SWRL rule language to generate logic rules and integrate the criminal domain ontology.