Crime, Punishment and Treatment

Crime is defined by society, or by representatives of our society, the lawyers, who legally define it. I suppose if we had no lawyers we would have no crime at least we would have no legal definitions, but criminal behavior would still be a major burden. A useful definition of crime is any behavior which is harmful or potentially harmful to other people. It may be divided into at least three main categories: (1) Criminal behavior for which we have no adequate explanation. It can be called idiopathic crime. (2) Drug related crime including the common toxic drugs such as alcohol, sugar, other additives to our food, other addicting drugs and more recently tranquilizers which, by removing self control, may increase the probability of crime in some people. (3) Disease related crimes.