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Nashville27 · Oct 6, 2007, 05:49 PM

I need to compare and contrast the concepts of natural crime and legal crime. Can anyone help me out?

shygrneyzs · Oct 6, 2007, 05:54 PM

Natural law means that justice will be given by nature against man, and prevails as that justice cannot be controlled.

Natural Crime, or Malum in se, are those crimes incompatible with a civilised society. It can also be held that aspects of Tort and Natural Crime are identical.

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Malum in se - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Criminal law, is man made, and is imposed by the state on man. Criminal as the it's a crime against the state rather than an individual which is where civil action lies.

Legal or Statute Crime, Malum prohibitum, owes its existence to statutory prohibition. Also there are statutes requiring mandatory compliance, in which case the noncompliance, is the crime.

Malum prohibitum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

excon · Oct 6, 2007, 07:47 PM

Hello N:

This is what I have posted on this subject in the past.

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Nobody would argue that killing, raping, stealing and beating people up are natural crimes. Everybody knows that, even little kids. That's why their called natural.

But if something is happening around you that doesn't look like a crime, it probably isn't. It's a "legal" crime. That's a crime made up by somebody who has a gripe. Then they manage to get a lot of their buddies together to pass a law and hire some cops to enforce it. But, that doesn't turn it into a "natural" crime, even though they manage to convince a lot of people that it is.

Some of the "crimes" we engage in that wouldn't be crimes if it weren't for those kinds of people are prostitution, drug use and crossing an imaginary line in the sand to get a job. There are certainly others, but those are the MOST troubling.

excon