Classification of Crimes

A person is relieved of criminal liability for an act if they are found to be insane at the time they committed the act, if they were legally a minor when they committed the act, or were acting under coercion or duress which was of such an intensity as to make their commission of the crime involuntary (Crime, 2005). Crimes are usually defined by, and punished according to statutes. Such punishments may include fines, imprisonment, death, forfeiture of property, removal from public office and disqualification from holding public office.

A person cannot be legally indicted or convicted for the commission of a crime unless that crime is expressly defined by statutes as a crime (Crime, 2005). This defines the difference between government by law and a dictatorship. A crime under general law is usually classified as a felony, a misdemeanor or treason. Many offenses cannot be defined exactly, and the rule was adopted that "any immoral act tending to the prejudice of the community was, per se, a crime and

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