What is crime

Abstract We all have commonsense ideas about what crime is. Splashed on the front pages of newspapers and a daily staple of TV, literary, and film entertainment—crime stories are big news and big business. Murder, theft, and assault might be some of the first things that to come to mind when posed the question ‘what is crime?’. However, usually it is the most visible and obvious crimes that receive the most attention. Many harms and injustices which are widespread and can result in deadly consequences seem to gain comparatively less interest.

摘要 我们对于什么是犯罪都有一些常识性的概念。犯罪故事充斥在报纸的头版，也是电视、文学和电影娱乐的日常主要内容——犯罪故事是重大新闻，也是大产业。当被问到“什么是犯罪？”时，谋杀、盗窃和袭击可能是最先浮现在脑海中的一些事情。然而，通常是最显而易见的犯罪受到最多的关注。许多广泛存在且可能导致致命后果的伤害和不公正现象似乎相对较少受到关注。