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There are very many definitions and connotations of the word 'crime', for the purposes of this essay I shall be concentrating on three areas: Legal and Statute Law, Moral and Social Codes encompassing Human Rights and the Marxian theory.
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There are very many definitions and connotations of the word 'crime', for the purposes of this essay I shall be concentrating on three areas: Legal and Statute Law, Moral and Social Codes encompassing Human Rights and the Marxian theory. Legal and Statute Crime can be described as a wrong to society involving the breach of a legal or statute rule which has criminal consequences attached to it. This however begs the question of intent, if an individual is ignorant of the laws he/she has breached can or indeed should they still be looked upon as having committed a crime? Laws, in particular statute laws brought about by parliament are subject to review and subsequently change. An individual could quite conceivably commit a crime under statute law in complete ignorance if such a review had been recent and the judiciary had declared the offence to be one of strict liability as opposed to...
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