Why do you think defining crime is so difficult? give an example of a situation in which a "crime" might not be considered a crime?

Defining what is a crime can be a difficult task depending on the place it takes place. I mean that what is a crime in The United States, might not be in Japan, for example. In addition to that, there are some places that don't have written laws about what cases are considered crimes which make the task even harder.

An example of a situation in which a crime might not be considered criminal is when we see a couple having an argument and all of a sudden one of the parts is hanging the other, and the only option the other person have to survive is to grab a trophy and hit it to the head and the person dies. This can not be considered as a crime because the one that "murdered" the other acted in self-defense.

It is important to mention that a person can't be convicted for a crime if it was deemed an unpreventable accident, ignorance, self-defense or insanity.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)