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Originally Posted by Geoluhread
Thanks you guys!
I'm applying to study criminal science... So if anyone wants to do a perfect crime... Call me =P
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One of the most surprising revelations to me when I dabbled in reading a few criminal science books was the concept that someone is defined as committing a crime only because a behavior or action had been arbitrarily defined by lawmakers as criminal. In other words, a million people may throw a banana peel on the park grounds and be fined for littering, but the a law may be passed stating that because banana peels are organic that those are exempted from the law and now no one is fined.
Look at prohibition as another example: where drinking was legal, then made illegal, then made legal again. So law abiding citizens became criminals at the sweep of a pen, then made law abiding citizens again.
Anyway, fascinating stuff, criminal science.