CRIMINAL LAW

Criminal Law

Criminal Law

Criminal Act

The concept of crime is essentially based on the legal definition of the offense. While the offense or the substantive crime term measures rather on the individual behavior; with crime, the offenses referred to as the overall phenomenon (macro phenomenon). As a crime, any form of assault which is on legal goods is referred to another person. Crime is thus, regarded as the ultimate opponent for the harmonious coexistence of people and their morality, in and out of a group, a society, a nation or between nations.

Although, the core concept of the criminal act provides the definition of vague contours; frequently negligence offenses are not referred to as crime because the perpetrator here has not intended to do bad and therefore, it is not considered as a criminal act.

Grading and Classification of Crimes in United Kingdom

English criminal law is the only one of the legal systems of the developed countries, which is unaware of the legislative statement of offense. According to the English lawyers, it is impossible to develop a concept that would satisfy everyone and cover all the acts and omissions which are of a criminal nature. Moreover, the legislator, according to such authorities on criminal law as Card, Cross and Jones, has general historical necessity in the legal wording of the crime. However, the search in the very nature of the crime of such features could form the basis of its definition. Quite often, when trying to define the criminal offense, lawyers refer to the view expressed by Lord Atkin in 1931, is that "quality inherent in a criminal act cannot be understood intuitively or disclosed by any standards, but as one that requires that the act is forbidden on pain of punishment (Fletcher 1998, 90).”

In spite, however, such statements in the English legal literature have developed an opinion about what constitutes a crime. Many lawyers still considered one of the best definitions of the crime that has been given by Stifenom in "Commentaries on the Laws of England". One of the definitions reads as follows: "It is a felony violation of any law, from the point of harmful direction (evil tendency) of such violation against society as a whole.” The drafters of the encyclopedic dictionary of English law also use this definition, adding the crime as "an act or neglect of duty, causing harm to society and prohibited by law under penalty imposed by the state."

Before the publication of the Criminal Law Act 1967 in England, there were crimes division, depending on the degree of risk on the most dangerous crime - adultery (treason) and felonies, and less dangerous crimes i.e., misdemeanors. The common law of crimes to be prosecuted on indictment allocates a felony as the most serious crimes, which is a consequence of the mandatory confiscation of property. The word "felony" is already contained a reference to the forfeiture, as the term is derived from the word «fee»-feud and «Ion»- price, i.e. felony meant always a crime, the punishment for ...