Introduction to Criminology 10/06/2020

1. Crimes that are fundamentally wrong regardless of time or place they

occur.
2. Those crimes committed against society which have produced direct
damage or prejudice common to all its members.
3. Those which cannot be prosecuted except upon complaint filed by the
aggrieved or offended party.
4. The capacity of a person to do whatever he pleases or to do whatever he
wishes.
5. It is the purpose to use a particular means to effect such result.
6. Refers to the rationality of the mind or the ability to know what is right or
wrong.
7. crimes committed by ordinary professionals to maintain their livelihood.
8. crimes committed because of the fit of great emotion.
9. crimes that are committed by a series of acts in a lengthy space of time.
10. crimes that are committed only in one place.
11. those that are committed by persons of responsibility and of upper socio
economic class in the course of their occupational activities.
12. those that are committed by offenders who does not know the nature of
their acts.
13. From among the members of the society, there are those who are born
mentally abnormal and are therefore not governed by their own free will.
They cannot distinguish good from evil. They have no control over their
physical want and are not aware that what they have done is wrong.
14. When the offender performs all the acts of execution which would produce
the felony as a consequence but which, nevertheless, do not produce it by
reason of some causes independent of the will of the perpetrator.
15. When all the elements necessary for its execution and accomplishment are
present.