What is a "Criminal Setting"?
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Defining Crimes and Setting Punishment\n\nIn the United States, the power to define crimes and set punishment for them rests with the legislatures of the United States, the several states, and the territories, the principal authority being that of the individual states. This power in the states is restricted by the federal Constitution, e.g., in the Fourteenth Amendment and in prohibitions against acts of attainder (an act of attainder is a legislative declaration that a particular individual is guilty of a crime) and against ex post facto laws (laws that retroactively declare certain actions to be criminal). State constitutions may also limit state legislative action. The courts cannot look further into the propriety of a penal statute than to ascertain whether the legislature has the power to enact it. Administrative rules may have the force of law, and violations of such rules are punishable as public offenses, provided that the legislature has made such violations misdemeanors.
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Let's take robbery.  You take something from someone else that doesn't belong to you.  It is a crime because you are violating someone else.  That is against our moral code.  When you break moral code there is a chance that your government has passed a law saying that it is illegal to do so.  The laws are in place so that everybody doesn't go around violating others.  The punishment is set by standards of society.  It is also set by what the perpetrator has done in his past (aka prior record).  That determines the sentence for the crime.  The punishment should be putting that person in a place where they have to reflect upon their crime and find the wrong in what they did so that hopefully they will never do it again.\nI hope that answers you question.
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It is not a finding of "innocent".  There is no finding of innocent in criminal court anywhere.  It is a judgement not withstanding the verdict or JNOV.
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Reported to abuse: cracking / criminal activity.
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Anywhere a crime has been committed.
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By definition :\ncriminal\nAnoun\n1 criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor\n someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.\nTherefore, commiting one crime makes you a criminal.\nAs a crime is defined by the laws of your country. You may even be a criminal to other laws withouth knowing :\nEx: to possess a gun in Malaysia is a crime with a possible sentence of death penalty...
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What type of criminal charge is it?
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In general, an aggravated version of a crime is more serious. That can be for several different reasons, and they would depend on the state.
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John's answer is absolutely correct, though I'd add one thing to it.   Punishment for criminal offenses often is dealt out in different degrees.  In California, many crimes are punishable by an upper limit of days in county jail (example: up to one year in county jail, meaning a person could get no jail time, or up to a year in jail), or by a number of determined years in prison (2, 3, or 4 years, for example).  \n\nThere are many factors that determine the sentence handed out to the defendant, but you should expect to see the prosecutor argue for the upper limits of allowable punishment because, after all, police officers are supposed to be perfect (okay, I'm getting a little testy here) or at least not supposed to go around committing crimes.  It's hard to argue that a cop should be prosecuted and punished just like anyone else, because the cops are indeed supposed to be the people who enforce the law, not break it.\n\nBottom line: John's right, but you'd probably expect to see the prosecutor at least ask for harsher sentences for cops - and maybe even get them.
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Oh yes !!!!! Do the crime do the time ........................... you could set up different punishments for different crimes ..... Theft ..... once - one hand off ..... twice - other hand off (wouldn't do it again) Think about rape !!!!!!!
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Depends on the state in which the crime is committed.  Edit your question and add info.
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No drugs No drinking No weapons No other Felons No Other crimes (some exceptions apply to traffic violations -- but no DUI or other serious traffic convictions) No yelling at your PO (LOL) and Random drug testing. Good Luck
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Pretty self explanitory- but it's crimes that are planned or "organized" by certain people, typically political figures & government officials or mobs, gangs.
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No. Around here a big deal crime is drunk driving or petty vandalism. Around the nearest big city it is drive-by gang shootings setting new highs in the murder rate.
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Oddly enough "crime against nature" isn't explicitly defined by state law in North Carolina. According to precedent, it is basically any form of intercourse other than vaginal, including beastiality, anal sex, fellatio, and cunnilingus. I imagine the sollicit part is clear.
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You mention getting ideas from books; I have a feeling that's probably rare. I know I'm stereotyping, but I think the average criminal doesn't spend too much time reading, esp. crime books.  I know occasionally I've seen crime shows where the "dumb" criminal has gotten caught because he researched his crime looking up how to commit the "perfect" crime on the internet, looking up websites on whatever way he planned to commit the murder. Efficient I guess, but then they are so busted!\n\nWatching a movie or TV maybe is more likely, although the CSI type shows tend to have two flaws that would discourage criminals I think. First of all, what would discourage me is that the criminal is always getting caught at the end; basically the premise of these shows are that criminals always leave some evidence that allows the investigators to catch the criminals and convict them which may or may not happen in real life of course....but you'd think would damper the enthusiasm of most watching them. Also, a lot of the shows I've noticed involve some kind of poison or drug; I guess maybe other people out there have more access to them or something, but in my world I just can't imagine going out there to try to purchase that or whatever. Those shows make it sound much more complicated than the average thug with a gun or whatever just doing a regular plain, old unimaginative crime. And then again, the CSI's always seem to catch the criminal who has poisoned or drugged the victim at the end of the show. So it seems a little unlikely to me. Plus, I think for me, those shows are really kind of just escapist fun; I hope most people wouldn't want to commit those kind of crimes! \n\nI'm thinking it's more likely people get ideas maybe from going to prison or from relatives that have gone to prison, that have actually committed crimes, but I could be wrong about that....
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That all depends on the state. Each state has its own penal codes and definitions of degrees of crimes.