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Definition of Crime
Crime

Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.

Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

That which occasion crime.

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Crime Quotations

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Stephen Ambrose

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley

Crime Translations

crime in Danish is forbrydelse
crime in Dutch is misdaad, misdrijf
crime in French is crime
crime in German is Untat, Verbrechen, Verbrechen
crime in Italian is crimine
crime in Latin is vitium, dedecus, malum, facina -oris
crime in Norwegian is forbrytelse
crime in Spanish is crimen


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