Crime and Criminality, as Manifestation Forms of Sin

Abstract

The present article is only the part of research, which based on the normative analysis, describes crime and criminality as forms of sin. According to research, sin is violation of norm. Ontology of state and law indicates that sin is violation of norm of law too. Hence, sin meets criteria both of general concept of norm and norm of positive law, meaning that normative concept is common feature of crime, criminality and sin. In conclusion part of the article, division of wide and narrow notions of sin are presented, according to which, wide notion implies violation of all types (informal and formal) of norms and narrow notion implies only violation of norms of positive law. Consequently, based on normative aspect, crime and criminality are forms of sin.