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Standards of understanding offence and victimhood

When it comes to defining what is a ‘Crime’, the definitions and grounds we take are the reasoning and understanding of the formal structures of law defined and constructed by those who are in authority or controlling the power structure. Though it is stated that an offence is an offence irrespective of the society's perceptions, as long as it satisfies the essentials of the Criminal law. But that is the partial reality because to consider a particular action or omission as an offence we need a victim of the said offence. It may be stated that under Criminal law the whole society is considered a victim of the offence, that’s why the State leads the prosecution. The point, here again, is that whatever according to the consciousness of the society is an offence or the offences of which society considers itself as a victim, are the ones to consider and prosecute. This is the point where the question of the definition of an offence again emerges itself into the empire of Crime instea