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Task1 –Written Task Using at least three academic sources, explain crime and the different definitions (maximum/notional 500words) (25marks) (LOs:3)
According to the law, crime has been outlined by the laws whereby anyone who attempts to do on offense, the law has given an order of punishments to such criminals. Criminals are punished by the law using different criteria according to the offense committed. Crime has been outlined from various angles with their explanations by different scholars from time to time as follows; Sir William Blackstone, who is author of his own books, defines crimes in two different perspectives, one being that a crime is a behavior committed by a victim in violation of guidelines provided by the law. He also defines crime as the breakage of citizen’s duties and rights (Kotwasińska 2014).
Sergeant Stephen improved on Blackstone’s view on crime and defined crime as a contravention of rights that has undermined society. This happens in cases such as when a police officer decides to harass a citizen while other police watch this kind of incident for the purpose of gaining something in return instead of putting an end to such harassment.
Raffaele Garofalo expounds on crime in a sociological view as; crimes is a wrongful and dangerous behavior as it is considered by the citizens in a community because they happen to be the victims of a criminal act. In his view, he emphasizes that there are some acts that are not regarded as crimes in society, such as lack of gratitude, coldness, and cruel behaviors toward other people.
Edwin Sutherland gathers statistical views of crime as a criminal act where he defines crime as a criminal act that goes against the law of criminals. He clarifies that all the indiscipline cases within the society are not regarded as a crime until when it is published and done a forbidden act by the law. He goes ahead to define the criminal law as a code of laws formulated to govern all citizens and applied in uniformity to all groups where punishments are applied to those who go against the formulated principles of criminal law (Wall‐Parker 2019).
 	Cross and jones define crime as a valid law in which the state orders punishment of the breakers or offenders of crime. He outlines that until the law considers a person as a criminal for the offenses caused, they are not criminal. Cross and jones state that before the law makes judgments that the specific person is a criminal, it first passes through a string or sequence of events that guide the criminal rule, which is then appended in the code of criminal procedures. The procedural code of laws differs depending on the culture in which modern cultures comprise a significant set of laws that considers someone as a criminal.
Paul Tappan describes the crime as an intended reaction to breaking the criminal rules in which penalties are given to the offenders of the crime by the nation. This method is commonly used in places like India, which has established the use of the Indian penal code, the code of criminal procedure, and the Indian evidence acts, which are bound to implement and apply the law of criminal justice established for the reason of enforcing the criminal legal rules (Feeley 2016).

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Feeley, M. M. (2016). 2014 Paul Tappan Lecture Entrepreneurs of Punishment: How Private Contractors Made and Are Remaking the Modern Criminal Justice System–An Account of Convict Transportation and Electronic Monitoring. C.C.J.L.S. Acknowledgements, 17(3), 1-30.
Kotwasińska, A. (2014). Looking for Ghostly Crimes: Cross-Pollination of Crime and Gothic Fiction in Edith Wharton’s Mr. Jones'.
Wall‐Parker, A. (2019). Measuring white-collar crime. The Handbook of White‐Collar Crime, 32-44.