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CRIMINOLOGY, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL LAW
11/14/2006 8:38 PM Page 1. C H A P T E R. 1. CRIMINOLOGY, CRIME, AND. CRIMINAL LAW. T. he joint 1996 wedding ceremony in Lincoln, Nebraska, of Majed Al-Timimy, 28, and Latif Al-Husani, 34, both Iraqi refugees who arrived after the first Gulf War, was to be a strictly traditional affair with a Muslim cleric specially flown in from Ohio to perform the ceremony. A fellow Iraqi refugee had arranged for the two men to marry two of his daughters, aged 13 and 14. The marriage took place and everything seemed to be going according to plan until one of the girls ran away, and the concerned father and her husband reported it to the police. It was at this point that American and Iraqi norms of legality and morality clashed head-on.
tional act in violation of the criminal law committed without defense or excuse, and penalized by the state.”14 Thus, a crime is an act in violation of a criminal lawfor which a punishment is prescribed; the person committing it must have intended to do so and must have done so without legally acceptable defense or justification.
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