Crime Against a Person

The concept of the crime

A crime occurs when someone breaks the law by an overt act, omission or neglect that can result in punishment. A person who has violated a law, or has breached a rule, is said to have committed a criminal offense.

A committed publicly dangerous act (or a failure to act) for which someone is found culpable, and which is prohibited by the Criminal Code, under the threat of legal punishment, shall be recognised as a crime.

There are two main categories of crime: property crime and violent crime.

Property Crimes: A property crime is committed when someone damages, destroys or steals someone else's property, such as stealing a car or vandalizing a building. Property crimes are by far the most commonly committed crime in the United States.

Violent Crimes: A violent crime occurs when someone harms, attempts to harm, threatens to harm or even conspires to harm someone else. Violent crimes are offenses which involve force or threat of force, such as rape, robbery or homicide. Some crimes can be both property crimes and violent at the same time, for example carjacking someone's vehicle at gunpoint or robbing a convenience store with a handgun.

Omission Can Be a Crime. But there are also crimes that are neither violent nor involve property damage. Running a stop sign is a crime, because it puts the public in danger, even though no one is injured and no property is damaged. If the law is not obeyed, there could be injury and damage.

Some crimes can involve no action at all, but rather not taking action. Withholding medication or neglecting someone who needs medical care or attention can be considered a crime. If you know someone who is abusing a child and you do not report it, under some circumstances you could be charged with a crime for failing to act. A crime is an act that breaks a law that relates to how to behave in society. The harm caused by the act is seen to be against society as a whole, not just a specific person. More specifically, a crime is an act (something you do) or omission (something you don’t do) that is against the law and punishable upon conviction.

Crime includes:

· Criminal Code offences against a person or property;

· drug offences;

· some motor vehicle offences.

A crime against a person includes force or threat of force against someone, for example:

· deliberately and violently hurting another person;

· threatening to hurt or attempting to hurt another person;

· murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping; and

· some traffic accidents that result in death.

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