CRCJ 1000 Lecture 2: What is Crime Sept 10 Wk2
22 Mar 2016
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There is not a very clear answer to this question, there can be a variety of answers. **mostly to make you realize that it"s not very easy to answer this question. Crime varies across race, culture, norms, values, beliefs, gender. What is treated as a crimes factually? concretely , materially. Factual and normative, what is and what ought to be, focused on essence on things and where things come from: crime as wrong in itself. Malum in se (evil in itself)something will always be wrong even if it"s not criminalized vs. malum prohibitum (evil because it is prohibited) Marijuana- only wrong because the law says so. Things that can be studies as crime. Where things are criminalized and not criminalized- weed. Behaviours that go against human nature (natural crimes) Humans are naturally inclines poverty and pity - we naturally are sympathetic towards others. Natural crimes violate these feelings of sympathy for others (lack of remorse)
