Natural Crime Vs. Legal Crime

Running head: Crime

Natural Crime and Legal Crime

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Natural Crime and Legal Crime

For every crime committed, there is a label that it must go under. After the arrest is made, the information is gathered and any investigation is conducted, there has to be a decision made whether it was a natural crime and legal crime. Natural crime is one that is wrong regardless of circumstances. There are statutes to this type of crime and if they are not met, it is noncompliance or a violation of the law. Just because there may not be a judge involved in the natural crime that you have committed does not make it any less of a natural crime. People kill animals in some of the same manners that people are killed so does killing an animal mean that it is a legal crime? A person would not think so since there are times when certain animals can be shot but there are not times when people can be killed for any reason.

Legal crime is a crime committed for political reasons and these people are not offenders. "They act perfectly legally: they deliberately break a law and suffer the legally prescribed punishment" (Shoher, Obadiah). Civil disobedience is technically illegal but because the doctrine of freedom of expression, civil disobedience are lawful since they immediately serve the higher purpose of free political debate. So in other words, if someone has told someone that it is wrong because it is a law that has been written down, than it is a violation of the law. If someone has had their license is suspended and they drive and get caught, this is a legal crime. The judge took that persons license and he or she was told that they cannot drive so there are going to be consequences for it.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation or the FBI has a list of major crimes and they are as follows, violent crimes, property crimes, murder and non-negligent man-slaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Now to attempt to decide what would be a natural crime and what would be a legal crime.

Nobody would argue that killing, taping, stealing and beating people up are natural crimes. That's why they are called natural. If something is happening around your neighborhood that does not look like a crime, chances are that it is not. Chances are that the crime that has been witnessed belongs in the category with legal crimes. It may seem as though it would go along with natural crime but if a second look is taken at the actual laws, chances are that there is going to be an explanation of what the crime is and what the consequences are of.

A person would think that in order to be able to say whether a crime is legal or natural, there should be an explanation of the crime that is being categorized. Murder is defined as the willful killing of one human being by another. This would make murder both a legal crime and natural crime. It is a legal crime because there is a law against it. It would be a natural crime because a person is causing harm to another. Violent crimes are defined as involving force or the threat of force. This would seem be a legal crime or mala prohibita. The reason for that is because naturally, there is not a law against being violent to each other, other than the ones that were written by a law maker. Property crimes are defined as the taking of money or property, but there is not force or threat of forces against the victims. This one would fall under that legal crimes as well because naturally there is not law against it, someone says that is wrong.

Forcible rape is defined as the carnal knowledge if a female forcibly and against her will.

It would make one think that this falls under both the natural and legal crimes. Not only is it wrong because someone said it is but because it just is. So this crime would appear to be both mala in se and mala