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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 1
09/17/2012

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CRIME
Definition
an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law; especially : a gross violation of law a punishment is prescribed  committed with intention and without defense or justification crime varies across time and place
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 criminal justice system

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deviance
Definition

behavior that departs from the social norm but is not necessarily criminal

picking yuor nose in public

cross dresing 


Term

mala in se

Definition

acts that are universaly condemned and broadly viewed

GTA


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mala prohibita

Definition

acts that are bad because they are prohibited – those crimes that are time and culture boud

murder

rape

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