Compare Crime Concepts 1

Compare and Contrast Natural Crime
And Legal Crime
Shannon Ware
University of Phoenix
Foundations of Criminal Justice CJA/303
James Smith
July 15, 2007

Compare Crime Concepts 2
Compare and Contrast Natural vs. Legal Crime
A natural crime is one in which the morals of society find a particular action to be unacceptable. It is associated with mala in se, or an offense that is evil or wrong from its own nature irrespective of statue (Mala, 2007). A natural crime is such because of the idea that one should inherently know not to commit such acts.
A legal crime is closely associated with mala prohibita as it is considered to be wrong only because there is a law prohibiting it. Such crimes can be hurtful to a society if they are left unchecked but are not so bad that a person would be banished from that society for committing such actions. It would be expected that a person learn of these rules and regulations in order to be a productive......

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