concept of crime

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..... ich will at the same time exclude all those acts and omissions which are not. Ordinarily a crime is a wrong which affects the security or wellbeing of the public generally so that the public has an interest in its suppression. A crime is frequently a moral wrong in that it amounts to conduct which is inimical to the general moral sense of the community. It is, however, possible to instance many cr .....

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..... an rather as symbols of emotion than as terms of scientific classification. And again:- So long as crimes continue (as would seem inevitable) to be created by government policy the nature of crime will elude true definition. Nevertheless it is a broadly accurate description to say that nearly every instance of crime presents all of the three following characteristics: (1) that it is a harm, brough .....

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..... ings were formerly called pleas of the Crown, because the King, in whom centres the majesty of the whole community, is supposed by the law to be the person injured by every infraction of the public rights belonging to that community. Wherefore he is, in all cases, the proper prosecutor for every public offence. Blackstone, while discussing the general nature of crime, has defined crime thus:- A cr .....

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