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This 6 page paper discusses natural and legal crime, lists the major crimes identified on the FBI Crimes Index, and decides whether each of the crimes thus listed is malum in se or malum prohibitum. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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particular the FBI, develop sets of crime statistics to determine what kinds of crimes are committed, and how the rate changes over time. This paper discusses natural and legal crime,
the concepts of mala in se and mala prohibita, and then enumerates the crimes the FBI lists on its Crime Index, and determines if they are mala prohibita or mala
in se. Natural and Legal Crime It has proven surprisingly difficult to find a definition for "natural crime." One source describes "created crime risk" as such things as "walking through
a high crime area with large sums of money," leaving doors unlocked or letting strangers into the home (Facilitator outline). Opposed to this we have "natural crime risk," which includes
such factors as isolation, darkness, and "natural disasters which create an opportunity for crime to occur" (Facilitator outline). In this definition, then, natural crime is that which occurs because there
is a natural opportunity for it. Another definition is quite different. A postgraduate student known only as "logicalawyer" says "Natural law means that justice will be given by nature
against man, and prevails as that justice cannot be controlled" whereas criminal law is "man made, and is imposed by the state on man" (Logicalawyer, 2006). A third person suggests
that "natural crime" is a crime against the laws that were given to all men by God, whereas "legal crime" is "an act that violates a human-made law, contained in
a legal code" (scribe-ga, 2006). For our purposes, lets suppose that "natural crime" is that which will be punished by some agency other than the law. Mala in se
/ Mala Prohibita Both of these phrases are obviously Latin; "mala in se" is the plural of "malum in se" and it means "an act that is illegal from the
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