Criminal law

What is the social definition of crime?

• Behavior that violates norms of society

• Behavior that has harm in a society

• Behavior that has no harm in a society

When many dangerous or harmful behaviors aren’t crimes

• Overcriminalization

• Undercriminalization

• Noncriminalization

• Legal

When many less dangerous or harmful behaviors are crimes

• Overcriminalization

• Undercriminalization

• Noncriminalization

• Illegal

Any standard or rule regarding what human beings should or should not think, say, or do under given circumstances

• Value

• Belief

• Norm

• Religion

The basis of criminal justice in the United States

• Social definition of a crime

• Legal definition of a crime

• Illegal definition of a crime

• All definitions of crimes

How many elements are there that present a crime

• 5

• 7

• 9

• 10

For crime to occur, there must be ____, either physical or verbal

• Fights

• Harm

• Words

Thinking about committing a crime

• Is a crime

• Is not a crime

Making a verbal threat to harm another individual

• Is a crime

• Is not a crime

The requirement that a harm must be legally forbidden for the behavior to be a crime and that the law must not be retroactive

• Substantial

• Illegal

• Legality

• Norm