Are You a Criminal?

Embezzlement, Fraud, Shop Lifting, crimes that tend to go unnoticed most of the time, crimes that most of us would say we don’t agree with and that people that commit these crimes should be punished for them.

So what is a crime –crime can be defined as a deviant behavior that violates prevailing norms, specifically, cultural standards prescribing how humans ought to behave.
So what happens when it has become culturally acceptable to break the law? It has become the norm for how we behave.

Let’s look at how we drive:
- Do you always use turn signals? There is a law that says we should.
- Do you always stay under the speed limit? If you did on most freeways you would cause more accidents because it has become the norm to go above the speed limit.
- What about using your cell phone while driving or even sending a text message? Some states this against the law, but yet we still do it.

Lawbreaker – Someone who violates the law.

I will be honest, I first thought of this post last Saturday as I was looking at a message on my cell phone while driving over the speed limit done the freeway.

When did it become socially acceptable to be a lawbreaker/criminal?