What is crime?
Steve Case, author of Criminology, discusses the difficulties of trying to define ‘crime’. www.oup.com/academic/product/9780198736752
Steve Case is Professor of Criminology at Loughborough University. Alongside Phil Johnson, David Manlow, Roger Smith, and Kate Williams, he writes Criminology, a new core, introductory textbook for undergraduates.
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Great discussion, concise and well articulated.
The changes to youth crime categorisation in 1998 simply made formal what was already accepted practice in the courts. My first conviction came in 1967 at the age of ten - probation after a three week remand. Doli incapax was never, to my knowledge, discussed. I recall a social report by a probation officer. The only difference between this court appearance and my subsequent ones is that it did not appear in my list of previous offences. Approved schools had no shortage of children ("delinquents") under the age of 14 - the very fact the schools were divided into three age categories, two that include under 14s (intermediate 13-15 and junior 10-13) for offences that would result in a prison sentence for an adult is evidence enough that the distinction was artificial. Never mind the fact that many kids ended up there for committing no offence at all!