Outline the view that crime is socially constructed

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August 18, 2013

 

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The legal and normative definitions may conflict with one another. For example, killing human beings in warfare may be legally acceptable, but may never be justifiable to a Quaker. Crimes, from both the legal and normative perspectives, vary across culture, time and belief. For example, bigamy is illegal in this country but acceptable in many African cultures...
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For example, bigamy is illegal in this country but acceptable in many African cultures. Cannabis tincture was permissible as a painkiller in Victorian times (Mooney et al., 2004, p.7) but today in the UK possession of cannabis is illegal. Thus crime is defined by a society's own rules, norms and beliefs at any given time in history...
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