Criminal offences are offences you can be prosecuted under the law for. Noncriminal offenses are things like libel or slander, and causing unintentional injury (a big passion of many...
In some countries the record is limited to actual convictions (where the individual has pleaded guilty or been proven guilty in court of law), while in others it also includes arrests, charges...
A non-criminal violation of law is an infraction or a civil violation depending on what the law is. Traffic offenses are infractions; they are treated as criminal violations but are not crimes. Other...