Talk:Crime

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	Crime was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result February 25, 2006 Good article nominee Listed September 27, 2007 Good article reassessment Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Can we add that? 64.231.231.235 (talk) 04:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where is that a crime? Arllaw (talk) 04:22, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the participants section makes it seem like a crime is not possible without both a perpetrator and a victim. The article on victimless crime exists as a contradiction.

Adding this as an edit request since I'm short on time. CoolAndUniqueUsername (talk) 16:24, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The intro paragraph includes this text:

One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong"). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law

I think it should instead read, 'some such acts' or 'many such acts'. There are some acts which meet that definition of 'public wrong' that are not punishable by law. These include: forms of bullying (harms individual; creates fear in others) or hostile bad-faith arguing (can be stressful; harmful to epistemic norms)

Tailnommer (talk) 02:04, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]