Define crime and explain characteristics of crime
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One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime.
Ideally, a human behavior cannot be called as a crime, unless at least seven characteristics of crime are present which are as under:
1.Harm should have been caused, mere intention is not enough.
2.The harm must be legally forbidden. Anti-social behavior is not crime unless prohibited by law.
3.There must be conduct which brings harmful results.
4.Men’s rea or criminal intent must be present.
5.There must be a fusion or concurrence of men’s rea and conduct.
6.The harm caused must be natural consequences of the voluntary act.
7.There must be legally prescribed punishment.
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A crime may be defined as an act or omission, sinful or non-sinful, which a society or a study has of thought fit to punish or otherwise deal with under its laws for the time being in force. The different acts and or omissions so punishable under the law are known as “Crimes”