What makes a crime a crime?

What exactly is a crime? It’s not always obvious: both Socrates and Jesus were treated as criminals...

29 October 2019

Presented byEd Kessler.

Production byDavid Perry,Tara Zammit.

POLICE

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What exactly is a crime? It’s not always obvious: both Socrates and Jesus were after all treated as criminals. In this discussion, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Caroline Lanskey and Julian Hargreaves join Ed Kessler to look at crimes, religion, the law, and some weird bygone punishments...