crime | en

Songs or stories (spoken word) about crime. The term crime denotes an unlawful act punishable by the state. Apart from appealing to the existing statutes of the present time and place, no simple or universally agreed definition exists to determine whether a particular act constitutes a crime but one definition is that a crime, also called an offence or a criminal offence, is an act harmful not only to some individual, but also to the community or the state (a public wrong). Such acts are forbidden and punishable by law. .