The basic data for sociological explanations of crime rest heavily on how crimes are distributed among such social categories as age, gender, social class, racial and ethnic status, over time, and in differing social and cultural circumstances.
Protecting Society Against Crime. The Treatment of Crime and the Criminal. By E. R. CASS. General Secretary, American Prison Association and the Prison
Is crime a part of social activity?
The dominance of concerns about crime also hints at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society
They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes
What is a crime against humanity?
According to Article 7 (1) of the Rome Statute, crimes against humanity do not need to be linked to an armed conflict and can also occur in peacetime, similar to the crime of genocide
That same Article provides a definition of the crime that contains the following main elements: Other inhumane acts
Society against crimes
Annual observance for advocacy of free expression
The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) is a UN-recognized international day observed annually on 2 November.
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis
WWII war crimes
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, comprised the genocide of millions of Polish people, including the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles. These mass-killings were enacted by the Nazis with further plans that were justified by their racial theories, which regarded Poles and other Slavs, and especially Jews, as racially inferior Untermenschen.
The war crimes and crimes against humanity which
War crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Soviet Union
The war crimes and crimes against humanity which were perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts which were committed by the Red Army as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret police, NKVD, including its Internal Troops. In many cases, these acts were committed upon the orders of the Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in pursuance of the early Soviet government's policy of Red Terror. In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR, or they were committed during partisan warfare.
During World War II
Violation of the laws of war by German forces in World War II
During World War II, the German Wehrmacht committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, mass rape, looting, the exploitation of forced labor, the murder of three million Soviet prisoners of war, and participated in the extermination of Jews. While the Nazi Party's own SS forces was the organization most responsible for the genocidal killing of the Holocaust, the regular armed forces of the Wehrmacht committed many war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front.
