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To what extent is crime based on morality?
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To what extent is crime based on morality? Lord Justice Denning wrote that "Ever since the time of Henry I, in order that an act should be punishable, it must be morally blameworthy. It must be a sin." The definition of a sin is a comparatively clear one, and since St Thomas Aquinas, has been regarded as any act against Gods law, and because of the very close association between political structures and religious doctrines, law and morals have had a close relationship. But this is not the end of the argument. How germane is the relationship between crime and our oldest and most orthodox source of morality? We hold property to be very important in our society, not only the acquisition of it, but also the keeping of it once acquired. But in the book of Mathew chapter 19 verse 24, we are tolled that it is "easier for a camel to pass...
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