What is crime?

• what is crime?


  breaking the law
• according to Blackburn 1993, what is the definition of crime?

  crimes are acts attracting legal punishment. they're offences against the community.
• what does crime involve according to the western legal view?

  • actus reus
  • mens rea
• in the legal western view of what crime involves, what is actus reus?

  a voluntary act - the individual is aware of what they're doing
• in the legal western view of what crime involves, what is mens rea?

  guilty mind - an intention to commit the act