CJ 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Insider Trading, Mci Inc., Embezzlement

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 3450
• Professor: matthew Robinson

Document Summary

Something that is fundamentally wring and deserving of punishment: the natural/normative definition of crime, violates natural law, the idea that some things are just fundamentally wrong, ex. Killing someone, rape: allows us to recognize things as wrong, even if the law says they aren"t wrong. Illegal: murder legal: selling tobacco, illegal: theft legal: product shrinkage, Crime also requires culpability : defined on pg. Crime is a human invention that does not exist in nature. Crime is invented by the criminal law: thus , anything can be a crime, nothing is automatically a crime, people disagree about what should be a crime. So, could there be things that are harmful behaviors, committed with culpability, that are not crimes: ex. Federal definition of serious crime: harmful, frequent, pervasive (happens everywhere) Serious crimes: criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, burglary, larceny/theft, motor vehicle theft, arson. All the serious property crimes in the usa (theft, burglary etc. )