LAWS 2301 Chapter Notes -Drug User, Inculturation, Consequentialism
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Crime can be defined from at least three perspectives: the legal, ethical and contractual. A crime is any act prohibited or punishable by law or any form of human behaviour designated by law makers as criminal and subject to penal to penal sanctions. The most precise and least ambiguous definition of crime is that which defines it as behaviour which is prohibited by the criminal code . The criminal law is the formal cause of crime . Crime: a legal category that is assigned to conduct by authorized agents of politically organized society. The legal definition of crime is broad and narrow. It is broad because it means that any form of behaviour can be designated a. Behaviour now regarded criminal was at other times widely accepted. The list of activities that can be designated criminal is endless. Traditionally, many occupations, religions and ideologies have been designated as crimes.