Crime in ancient soceity

Crime in ancient soceity

by Suriya Benta jamal -
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Crime in the ancient society:
1. Printing a book, professing the medical doctrine of circulation of blood, sale of coin to foreigners, having gold in the house - all these have been crime at different times.
2. Roman law of Twelve Tables, Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and other early legal systems did not list homicide or ordinary theft among crimes. The criminals could be exonerated by giving compensation or by surrendering to the injured clan as a substitute worker for the victim clan.
3. In the Inca society of Peru, the destruction of a bridge was the most serious crime as it was a country, which was crisscrossed by ravines and canyons and bridges were the only ways of communication
4. A person without a horse or blanket was in danger of death among the North American Plain Indians, so theft of a horse or of a blanket was the most heinous crime in that society.
5. In the ancient Germanic tribes honey was the only source of sugar for food and drink. As beehives produced the honey, if anybody stole a beehive he was punished seriously.