Crime is understood to be any action or activity that is carried out without respecting both written and customary law. They consist of serious crimes such as murder or damage to the physical integrity of a person.
The crime is similar to the crime, although the latter is more directly linked to the break with the written laws and with the consequent penalty based on the type of crime that has been committed. As might be expected, there are different types and different levels of seriousness of crimes: while some are robbery or theft, some can be really flagrant attacks on human integrity such as sexual abuse, torture and murder.
Meanwhile, from the point of view of the Law, the crime is considered as a conduct, action or omission that is typified by law and that therefore is contrary to the law and it is plausible to receive a punishment that will be in relation to the type of crime task. The crime is a direct violation of criminal law.
Crime can be understood as the result of deviant, perverse behavior (in all its senses, not just sexual). Whenever an action results in damage to third parties at any level, it represents a crime because, ultimately, it threatens society as a whole and therefore must be punished. The notion of crime is applicable only to the human being, who, from the use of reason, can distinguish the actions of good and evil.
Politics, police and justice must unite against crime
The notion of crime is also directly related to that of criminalization. Here comes the idea that society acts in different ways to prevent and stop crimes that can be committed. Normally, the control of crimes is carried out from the arrest and imprisonment of individuals considered criminals. Thus, they are separated from the rest of society because they are considered dangerous to it in different ways. The existence of prisons and holding spaces for alleged criminals is, however, a fairly modern invention dating back to the 19th century.
As might be expected, we find numerous types of crimes that can have social, psychological, economic origins, etc. Thus, for example, someone who steals food because they have nothing to eat is not the same as someone who abuses a woman or commits murder. In general, those disorderly societies with serious economic crises see an increase in the crime rate that can reach significant levels and difficult to reverse if state policies are not implemented that aim to combat the basic social problems that precisely derive in the commission of crimes.
Unfortunately crime is at this point a universal phenomenon, very old like human civilization itself and also very complex to eradicate. Although the police and justice, each from his place, persecute and punish criminals who commit crimes, it is never enough.
Crimes have evolved in complexity and violence over the years and therefore it is essential that states attack basic problems as we said before in order to face the scourge of crime, which even in these times has reached global levels.
It is in this unequal fight against crime that even a science has been developed that deals with studying its most relevant edges, criminology. This discipline carries out an interdisciplinary and global approach to be able not only to understand and explain the crimes but also to the society in which they are committed, which is often the trigger for many of them criminal acts.
Condemnable action
On the other hand, in common language we usually use the word crime to account for that action or behavior that is widely reprehensible because it greatly harms a person or something. For example, making a child work is undoubtedly a crime of the most despicable and reprehensible. Abusing an elderly person who cannot defend himself because he is weak or with mobility problems must also be understood as a crime in the sense that we are talking about.
