{"id":18,"date":"2012-10-16T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=18"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:06:20","slug":"1-introduction-what-is-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"1. Introduction: What IS Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Criminal Lawyer<\/em>‘s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n

Part 1: Crime<\/p>\n

Page 1: What is “crime”?<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n

NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n

Welcome to The Criminal Lawyer<\/em>‘s Guide to Criminal Law. In this series, we’re going to explore all kinds of concepts and ideas having to do with crime and punishment.<\/p>\n

First, let’s start off with some basics:<\/p>\n

Criminal law is about CRIME.<\/p>\n

Introducing Average Joe.<\/em><\/p>\n

AVERAGE JOE (less than thrilled)<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s pretty goddamn basic.<\/p>\n

NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n

But what IS crime, anyway?<\/p>\n

Average Joe looks like he knows the answer, then thinks, then shrugs.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Note: The Criminal Law chapters were each originally posted on Tumblr as a single long page. When the comic got its own website, the chapters were broken into pages for easier reading and commenting.)<\/p>\n

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