A crime occurs when someone is voluntarily seriously injured or killed.
Crime is the voluntary action of seriously injuring or killing someone . The person who carries out this type of action is known as a criminal . For example: "There are two arrested for the crime of the textile businessman" , "A horrendous crime shocked the city of Rio de Janeiro" , "The police redouble their efforts to find the criminal" .
There are times when the term crime is used to define a serious crime in general and an improper or reprehensible action : "What the government has done by reducing aid to community kitchens is a real crime," "Many believe that separating to the young children of their parents is a crime, but the judge did not understand it that way .
Crime according to law
From the point of view of law , crime is conduct , an action or an omission typified by law that is unlawful and punishable . A crime, therefore, violates criminal law . The concept is linked to crime , although this word (from the Latin delinquere ) has an etymological origin that refers to "abandoning" the path established by law.
Crime , therefore, is usually used in a generic sense and crime is reserved to refer to a serious crime or an offensive crime against people.
Another distinction can be made between crime and homicide . A homicide is, for all the laws in the world, a crime. On the other hand, killing a person is only homicide (and therefore a crime) in certain cases. He who kills in the middle of a war , in legitimate defense or exercising a profession (a doctor or a judge who applies capital punishment, for example) does not commit a crime.
It is common that, to discover who is responsible for a crime, an investigation must be carried out.
The term in literature
In black literature , crimes occupy a fairly important place; So much so that most novels belonging to this genre usually have one or several deaths in their plot and the rest of the story unfolds around the discovery of the murderer. Some examples of authors who have stories of murders and deaths are: Agatha Christie , Patricia Highsmith , Fernando Ampuero and Eduardo Mendoza , among many others.
On the other hand, in the world of poetry the poem "The crime was in Granada" by Antonio Machado is known, published in "Soledades" and in which he recounts the death of Federico García Lorca , murdered by the Franco regime for his ideas against the system.
One of the most lucid verses says: «They killed Federico / when the light appeared. / The squad of executioners / did not dare to look at his face. »
Crime and organized crime
Organized crime is known as the activity carried out by a solidly structured group whose purpose is to commit serious crimes in order to obtain an economic or material benefit in return. In each country there are various groups that carry out this type of actions that threaten security .
It is worth mentioning that the actions carried out by these people go against current legislation . Despite this, they manage to carry out their work in such a "careful" way that justice cannot condemn them. It is also worth mentioning that, in many cases, it is very difficult to eliminate them since these groups are protected by institutions , people or entities with a certain social weight .
These groups, in addition to committing crimes of all kinds, usually traffic drugs, people and commit crimes of all kinds, such as kidnappings and murders.
For years, the United Nations has been trying to develop projects to fight this type of criminal organizations and put an end to organized crime , establishing measures to combat it and trying to get the people of each country to collaborate with the clarification of the crimes committed by them. organisms.