Natural Crime and Legal Crime
Antoine Brown
Axia College of the University of Phoenix
Foundations of Criminal Justice CJA/ 303
Matthew Smith
November 10, 2008







What are Natural Crime and Legal Crime? A natural crime is an act in which the ethics of society finds a particular action to be offensive. This nature of crime is associated with Malum in se; a term that signifies crime that is considered wrong in and of it self (MojoLaw.com, 2008). Legal crime is an act that violates criminal law, a man made law and forced by the state. Legal crime is associated with malum prohibitum; a term applied to any action is criminalized strictly by statue and statutory law.
Crime is a definition of behavior that is conferred on some persons by others (Robinson, 2005). These crimes are some what of the same and may be view differently by the nature of its actions. For every crime that is committed, there is a certain label that particular crime must go under. After an arrest is......

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