Comment on Street racers are not criminals
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It’s not a crime, it’s an offence. It’s only a crime when you crashed into someone, injuring or killing them, but it remained an offence for driving dangerously, and it’s illegal.
NABDad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Do you have a reference to the particular definition you’re using?
All my searching indicates “offense” is either synonymous with “crime” or at the very least a subcategory of “crime”. I couldn’t find anything suggesting that an “offense” was not also a “crime”.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Huh. I swear i read somewhere that define crime as in something like assault or murder or battery or robbery, something that cause harm to others, while offence is when you break the law. Like while littering or parking somewhere you shouldn’t might be a punishable offence according to the law, it isn’t a crime per se.