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Delinquency and Crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Norwood East
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The modern usage of the word “delinquency” lacks precision, and some writers use it to connote all types of offences, however serious, and whatever the age of the offender, whilst others restrict its use to minor offences committed by children and young persons. A crime is described legally as an act or omission forbidden by law under pain of punishment (Harris and Wilshere, 1919), and may be regarded as conduct which the State considers to be opposed, at the time, to the welfare of the community. Kenny (1909) stated, “Crimes are wrongs whose sanction is punitive, and is remissible by the Crown, if remissible at all.”

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 90 , Issue 378 , January 1944 , pp. 382 - 398
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

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