{"id":33,"date":"2012-10-17T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=33"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:07:16","slug":"4-meet-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"4. Meet the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime04.png\" alt=\"Criminal punishment is not imposed by private citizens, informal groups, or one's social circle. Criminal punishment is imposed by the State.\" width=\"500\" height=\"1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime04.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Crime04-142x300.png 142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e07836ea4108056327571' value='69e07836ea4108056327571'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e07836ea4108056327571' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e07836ea4108056327571' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e07836ea4108056327571' ><\/p>\n<p>The Criminal Lawyer&#8217;s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)<\/p>\n<p>Part 1: Crime<\/p>\n<p>Page 4: What is &#8220;crime&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Criminal punishment is not imposed by private citizens, informal groups or one&#8217;s social circle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Introducing The State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Criminal punishment is imposed by the STATE.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aside<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Pictured here as a sort of modern Athena\/Roma &#8212; forget Hobbes&#8217; Leviathan, or Uncle Sam &#8212; the ancients had it right when they personified Government as a badass chick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You don&#8217;t want to get on her bad side.<\/p>\n<p><em>More text<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So CRIME means an act, deemed unacceptable by society, so bad that the STATE will step in and PUNISH you for doing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But what do we mean by &#8220;punishment?&#8221; What is it, and why does it happen?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We&#8217;ll cover that in Part 2: &#8220;Take That!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e07836ea4108056327571' 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-33","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\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}