CJ 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oligarchy, Assault, Insurance Fraud
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Part 1: what is crime: legal de nition of crime vs. natural de nition of crime. Who makes the law: w. o. r. m. (whiter, older, richer, maler, culpability- blameworthy/responsible: intentional reckless. Crime: any behavior* that violates the criminal law. *acts, attempts, failure to act, or conspiracies(agreement to commit something w/ someone: any behavior that is fundamentally wrong and desires punishment(whether legal or not). Natural def: any behavior that causes harm to others, is viewed as wrong or immoral by us, and that"s committed w/ culpability. Crime is invented, it does not exist in nature: anything can be a crime. (a law has to be broken, nothing is automatically a crime. (a law has to be pasted, people disagree. Nollem crimen sine lege (no crime without the law) No ex post facto law : street crime vs. elite deviance (corporate and white-collar crime) Who are more dangerous, poor people or rich people? pg.
