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GCSE History · key term
An action or omission that breaks the law and can be punished by the state.
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Component 2
Revise: Causes of CrimeA crime is an action that breaks the law. To understand its causes, we need to consider both why people offend and why particular actions are defined as crimes. Hunger might encourage someone to steal food; a change in the official religion might make someone's existing beliefs illegal.
Distinguish changes in behaviour from changes in the law: religious change could make an existing belief a crime.
Support explanations with dated examples, and avoid suggesting that all poor people or all members of a particular social group committed crime.
Keep the focus on causes. Details of punishments or policing only belong in an answer when they help explain why crime occurred.
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