Crime, what is crime? Crime is an act that breaks the law that relates to how to behave in society or an act something you do or something you don’t do that is against the law and punishable upon conviction. These can include crimes such as crime against a person using force or threat of force against someone. Deliberately and violently hurting another person to include murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping, and some traffic accidents that can lead to death. Crime against property can include unlawfully taking or attempting to take someone's property or purposely damaging another person's property. property crimes may or may not involve violence. theft, stealing a car or property from someone's car, breaking and entering into someone's home or breaking their windows. Being dishonest with someone to gain something illegally is also a punishable crime, which is fraud. Other crimes can include drug offences, arson , which means to set fires on purpose, gaming and betting which is known as gambling and weapons possession.
The law is a set of rules or regulations made by the government that are enforced by a controlling authority and rime is the act that breaks the law. The relationship between crime and the law is without the controlling authority of the law crime can not be prevented or monitored.
Common Models that are used to determine which acts are considered criminal are the " Consensus Model" and the "Conflict Model" The Consensus model is a criminal justice perspective that assumes that the systems components work together harmoniously to achieve the social prodcut we call justice. The Conflict Model is a criminal justice perspective that assumes that the systems components function primarily to serve their own interests according to this theoretical framework
