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Crime: Social construction or reality?
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... Crime: social construction or reality? Murder, rape, assault, wounding, arson, vandalism, robbery, burglary and theft are all deemed criminal offences. Criminal behaviour's like these contribute to the nation's crime problem and fear within the public. The definition of crime is as follows: Criminal behaviour is behaviour in violation of the criminal law, it is not a crime unless it is prohibited by the criminal law. The criminal law, in turn, is defined conventionally as a body of specific rules regarding human conduct which have been promulgated by political authority, which apply uniformly to all members of the classes to which the rules refer and which are enforced by punishment administered by the state, (Sutherland and Cressey, 1970:10). Without laws the country would be in chaos and there would be no social order, laws are invoked for the purpose of social control. However, there is still a serious crime problem therefore there is
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