1, different definitions:
Violation of law refers to all acts that violate the national constitution, laws, decrees, administrative regulations and administrative rules, and its extension is extremely extensive.
Crime must conform to the provisions of China's criminal law on crime, and must have the following characteristics:
First of all, crime is an act that harms society. The harmfulness of behavior to society is the most essential feature of crime.
Second, crime is a violation of criminal law. In other words, an act that endangers society must be an act that violates the provisions of the criminal law at the same time, which constitutes a crime.
Third, a crime must be an act that should be punished by penalty, and only an act that harms society should be punished by penalty.
2. Crime must be illegal, but breaking the law does not mean committing a crime.
3. Different harmfulness to society:
Breaking the law does little harm to society and the circumstances are minor, but it also brings damage to the country and the people and should be punished accordingly.
Crime is extremely harmful to society, and criminals should be severely cracked down.
Extended data:
The concept of crime in China's criminal law is a mixed concept of crime with the unity of form and essence. Article 13 of China's Criminal Law [1]? It stipulates: "All acts that endanger national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, split the country, subvert the people's democratic dictatorship and the socialist system, disrupt social and economic order, infringe on state-owned property or property collectively owned by the working people, infringe on citizens' private property, infringe on citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and other acts that endanger society that should be punished according to law are crimes, but the circumstances are obviously minor and are not considered.
This concept of crime is a theoretical summary of various criminal phenomena, which not only reveals the legal characteristics of crime, but also clarifies the social and political content of crime, thus providing a principle standard for distinguishing the boundary between crime and non-crime.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-crime