SOCI 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Shaky Ground, Causative, Scientific Method
30 Apr 2012
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Crime - (seen from a legalistic perspective) is defined as human conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a jurisdiction that has the power to make such laws, and for which there is some form of authorized sanction. Without a law that circumscribes a particular form of behaviour, there can be no crime, no matter how deviant or socially repugnant the behaviour in question may be. Example: australian case, court acquitted a citizen of making a demand with menaces when he was said to have threatened another part with point to the bone (place a death curse). Didn t hold because the court finds it impossible to convict someone of assault charges for putting a voodoo curse on another. sees crime solely as confuct in violation of the criminal law. Nature of crime cannot be separated from the nature of law.
