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The one human behavior with its own government department.
means An act forbidden by law and punishable by the state, ranging from the trivial to the monstrous.
from From Latin crimen, meaning accusation or charge — originally the legal complaint itself, not the deed. It passed through Old French crimne before settling into English, slowly shifting from 'the charge against you' to 'the thing you did.' A cousin lurks in the Latin cernere, 'to judge or decide,' suggesting the word's oldest job was pointing a finger, not describing the offense.
- legal vs moral
- jaywalking is a crime, breaking a promise isn't
- changes constantly
- being gay was a crime in the UK until 1967
- invented category
- some societies had no word for crime, only debt
- corporate loophole
- companies can commit crimes but never go to prison