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  1. decriminalise
    make legal
    For example: as cultures change and the political environment shifts, societies may criminalise or decriminalise certain behaviours, which will directly affect the statistical crime rates, influence the allocation of resources for the enforcement of laws, and (re-)influence the general public opinion.
  2. criminalise
    declare illegal; outlaw
    For example: as cultures change and the political environment shifts, societies may criminalise or decriminalise certain behaviours, which will directly affect the statistical crime rates, influence the allocation of resources for the enforcement of laws, and (re-)influence the general public opinion.
  3. normative
    relating to or dealing with typical standards or patterns
    A normative definition views crime as deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms – cultural standards prescribing how humans ought to behave normally.
  4. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
    Indeed, in those cases where no clear consensus exists on a given norm, the drafting of criminal law by the group in power to prohibit the behaviour of another group may seem to some observers an improper limitation of the second group's freedom, and the ordinary members of society have less respect for the law or laws in general — whether the authorities actually enforce the disputed law or not.
  5. datum
    an item of factual information from measurement or research
    Similarly, changes in the collection and/or calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem".
Created on Thu Sep 16 19:29:19 EDT 2010

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