{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime011.png\" alt=\"Welcome to the Illustrated 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. First, let's start off with some basics: Criminal law is about Crime.\" width=\"500\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime011.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime011-123x300.png 123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e1c344ae85f4003275160' value='69e1c344ae85f4003275160'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e1c344ae85f4003275160' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e1c344ae85f4003275160' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e1c344ae85f4003275160' ><\/p>\n<p><em>The Criminal Lawyer<\/em>&#8216;s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n<p>Part 1: Crime<\/p>\n<p>Page 1: What is &#8220;crime&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><em>Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Welcome to <em>The Criminal Lawyer<\/em>&#8216;s Guide to Criminal Law. In this series, we&#8217;re going to explore all kinds of concepts and ideas having to do with crime and punishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">First, let&#8217;s start off with some basics:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Criminal law is about CRIME.<\/p>\n<p><em>Introducing Average Joe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE (less than thrilled)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That&#8217;s pretty goddamn basic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But what IS crime, anyway?<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe looks like he knows the answer, then thinks, then shrugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(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<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e1c344ae85f4003275160' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}