CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thorsten Sellin, Jordaan, Bezuidenhout
30 Dec 2020
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Focuses on actions that include a deliberate violation of the law of the state for which punishment may be imposed without justification or excuse (bezuidenhout & little. Before an act or omission may be defined as a crime, criminal law must regard it as such a suitable punishment must be in place. Hence the precept no crime without law and no punishment without law (snyman, middleton, strauss, geldenhuys, albeit & jordaan 1991:21ff). Juridical elements of crime: the act or conduct a human act under the control of a human will. Two forms of culpa (accountable behaviour of the perpetrator: deliberate intent (dolus, negligence (culpa, the element of punishment sentencing of criminal offenders in juridical terms only punishable acts are considered crimes. Main delineations of social crime (1) crime as a violation of behavioural norms: Edwin. h. sutherland in his book white collar crimes published in 1949 argues criminologists should study all illegal behaviour including civil justice.
