Furthermore, they seem to misrepresent what it is about crime that makes it deserving of punishment: what makes murder, or rape, or theft, or assault a criminal wrong, deserving of punishment, is surely the wrongful harm that it does to the individual victim not (as on this kind of account) the supposed unfair advantage that the criminal takes over all those who obey the law.
I don't think Bernie Ebbers is capable of committing any criminal wrong.
New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman held up the negotiations until the banks agreed to give prosecutors and regulators the right to investigate certain aspects of the housing bubble, including allegations of criminal wrong doing.
Now it is a familiar and disturbing truth that our existing criminal processes both in their structure and in their actual operations tend to preclude any effective participation by either victims or offenders, although an adequate response to the criminal wrong that was done should surely involve them both.
In English Law, for example, until the position was recently changed by statute, a thief had, in certain special circumstances, the legal power to pass good title in the goods he had stolen to a third party, even though by doing so he committed a civil, and possibly also a criminal, wrong.
If she has done wrong -- criminal wrong -- she should be prosecuted.
"There is a criminal wrong that needs to be addressed here".
Furtum was a delict of Roman law comparable to the modern offence of theft (as it is usually translated) despite being a civil and not criminal wrong.
And whether you agree or not with the FBI and State Department's assessment of no criminal wrong doing with use of a personal email server, this seemed mean spirited and beyond the pale to me.
In many jurisdictions, it is considered that children under a certain age (around 10) cannot form mental intent to do a criminal wrong on their own.
