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Crime is a social product and a social occurrence.1 No act is a criminal act until it threatens harm or the possibility of harm to organized society and organized society has taken steps to prevent the recurrence of that act.' A criminal is one who acts in such a way that organized society, in the form of the community of which he is a part, is compelled to declare that the act and the actual or potential consequences of that act are a menace or injury to it, and is forced to take steps to suppress further activities of his along similai lines. Organized society is a complex thing. A nation, a state, a community, has many factors within it and many functions to perform. Thle criminal may injure these factors or interfere with these functions. The criminal law therefore must analyze the social organization, determine how the criminal is related to and connected with this or |
