CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Forgotten Realms Nations, Mens Rea
29 May 2020
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What we view as crime isn"t static, it is dynamic. Crime is affected by both culture and history. for example while prostitution is accepted to be legal in the netherlands, it is regulated in countries such as canada. Homosexulaity used to be a criminal offence, now in most parts of the world, it isn"t. Rule of thumb - this phrase comes from a common law practice that allowed a man to beat his wife or child with a weapon that isn"t wider than his thumb. Years ago, domestic violence was viewed as a personal or household problem and not a crime prosecuted under criminal law. Since what constitutes a crime changes overtime, we should consider crime and. Deviance in the broadest sense is just a deviation from the norm (society"s values) or the average. Sometimes deviant behaviour is celebrated but past events have shown that most of what society considered deviant was criminalized.
