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Crime is a very complex issue and often difficult to understand. It easy to understand a criminal fact profit; a man wants something, so he takes it. The real question is, why did one man steal and not the other? Why do some people in a society commit: crimes and not others? What makes a criminal? Was it the way they were raised, or was it predestined by birth? There are many theories that offer explanations of criminal behavior. First we must define what a law is and from where laws originate.
Law may be defined as а legal written prohibition of some act or utterance or a legal written requirement that some act or utterance be performed. The goal of the law is to regulate peopleso that they can live in the society without chaos and under the best possible circumstances.
Although social groups vary in the degree of tolerance, they demand conformity to some norms. In the absence of such demands, groups would not exist because of resulting anarchy. The mechanisms used to demand conformity to the norms (rules/laws) occur in the following manner:
- Positive sanctions: medal, prizes, merits, money, etc.
- Negative sanctions: punishments (fines, demerits, imprisonment).
We can say that some behavior is criminal only because it is defined as criminal by the government, even though the behavior is not harmful to the society in general, but is viewed by the majority as unacceptable or bad behaviour.
Crime may be defined as an act committed in violation of a public law forbidding or commanding it. Society outlaws certain acts for a number of reasons, to protect life and property, protect individual freedoms, preserve the system of government, maintain the morality of the community.
Criminal behavior may be definedas the actions or in actions of individual or a group which are harmful to law. Criminal behavior generally requires deliberate criminal intention.
Abnormal behavior is not necessarily criminal, however, criminal behavior is always outside the range of socially accepted behavior.
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