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- Title: Crime Its Cause and Treatment
- Author : Clarence Darrow
- Release Date : January 25, 2018
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 14729 KB
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I WHAT IS CRIME? There can be no sane discussion of crime and criminals without an investigation of the meaning of the words. A large majority of men, even among the educated, speak of a criminal as if the word had a clearly defined meaning and as if men were divided by a plain and distinct line into the criminal and the virtuous. As a matter of fact, there is no such division, and from the nature of things, there never can be such a line. Strictly speaking, a crime is an act forbidden by the law of the land , and one which is considered sufficiently serious to warrant providing penalties for its commission. It does not necessarily follow that this act is either good or bad; the punishment follows for the violation of the law and not necessarily for any moral transgression. No doubt most of the things forbidden by the penal code are such as are injurious to the organized society of the time and place, and are usually of such a character as for a long period of time, and in most countries, have been classed as criminal. But even then it does not always follow that the violator of the law is not a person of higher type than the majority who are directly and indirectly responsible for the law.
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